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Methods Used to Identify Quality Measures for Consideration

The National Quality Measures Clearinghouse™ (NQMC), sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, uses a range of methods to identify and collect measures for consideration against its inclusion criteria. These include:

AHRQ's notice in the Federal Register inviting measure developers to submit their measures for consideration
Periodic mailings to measure developers
Iterative searches of the literature using resources such as:

the National Library of Medicine's Medline, HealthSTAR, HSRProj, and DIRLINE databases;
the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL®) database;
the American Psychological Association's PsycInfo® and PsycLit® databases;
the World Wide Web.

Hand-searches of primary and secondary literature sources
Suggestions from NQMC users (i.e., suggestions received via e-mail at info@qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov or webmanager@qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov)

NQMC Inclusion Criteria

Each measure that is submitted to NQMC is reviewed against a standard set of Inclusion Criteria.

Submit Your Quality Measures to NQMC

Measure developers are encouraged to submit their quality measures to NQMC for consideration. See the Submitting Measures page for more details.

Content Development

Methods Used to Identify Quality Measures for Consideration

NQMC Inclusion Criteria

Submit Your Quality Measures to NQMC

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