HQA Resources

Flowchart on the quality measurement enterprise – measure development and implementation, data collection and submission, and public reporting

Friends of NQF Position Paper, March 5, 2007

Draft legislation amending the Public Health Service Act to establish the NQF as a national voluntary consensus standards setting organization

Draft legislation amending the Social Security Act to establish the NQF as a national voluntary consensus standards setting organization  

Draft legislation including HQA's role in quality measures and reporting

Hospital Quality Reporting in the United States: A Cost Analysis for the Hospital Quality Alliance,  A report by Booz Allen Hamilton for the HQA, December 2006

Envisioning the Roadmap for Hospital Quality Reporting,  A report by Booz Allen Hamilton for the AHA, FAH, and AAMC, June 2006

Resources from other organizations

Improving America’s Hospitals: A Report on Quality and Safety from the Joint Commission, March 2007

National Healthcare Quality Report, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2006

Identifying Long Term Priorities for Hospital Performance Measures, A white paper by Mathematica Policy Research Inc. for the AHRQ, October 2006

Peer-reviewed journal articles by year of publication:

2007

Jha, A. K., Orav, E. O., Li, Z., and Epstein, A. M.  (2007).  The inverse relationship between mortality rates and performance in the hospital quality alliance measures.  Health Affairs, 26(4), 1104-1110.

Lindenauer, P. K., Remus, D., Roman, S., Rothberg, M. B., Benjamin, E. M., Ma, A., and Bratzler, D. W.(2007). Public reporting and pay for performance in hospital quality improvement.  The New England Journal of Medicine, 356 (5), 486-496.

Lutfiyya, M. N., Bhat, D. K., Gandhi, S. R., Nguyen, C., Weidenbacher-Hoper, V. L., and Lipsky, M. S. (2007). A comparison of quality of care indicators in urban acute care hospitals and rural critical access hospitals in the United States. International Journal of Quality in Health Care, 19 , 141-149.

Shih, A. and Schoenbaum, S. C.  (2007).  Measuring hospital performance:  The importance of process measures.  New York, NY:   Commonwealth Fund .

Yu, F. and Houston, T. K. (2007). Do “most wired” hospitals deliver better care?  The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, 33 (3), 136-144.

2006

Werner, R. M. and Bralow, E. T. (2006). Relationship between Medicare’s Hospital Compare performance measures and mortality rates. Journal of the American Medical Association, 296(22), 2694-2702.

Landon, B. E., Normand, S. L., Lessler, A., O’Malley, A. J., Schmaltz, S., Loeb, J. M., and McNeil, B. J.  (2006).  Quality of care for the treatment of acute medical conditions in the U.S. Archives of Internal Medicine, 166(22), 2511-2517.

2005

Williams, S.C., Schmaltz, S. P., Morton, D. J., Koss, R. G., and Loeb, J. M. (2005). Quality of care in U.S. hospitals as reflected by standardized measures, 2002-2004. The New England Journal of Medicine, 353 (3), 255-264.

Jha, A. K., Li, Z., Orav, E. J., and Epstein, A. M.  (2005).  Care in U.S. hospitals – The Hospital Quality Alliance program.  The New England Journal of Medicine, 353 (3), 265-274.