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National Quality Forum Endorses Diabetes-Related PQIs

Washington, DC - The National Quality Forum (NQF) has announced the endorsement of 29 national voluntary consensus standards for diabetes care for internal quality improvement (QI) and community-level monitoring. The voluntary consensus standards represent the consensus of the more than 270 organizations that are members of the NQF.

The measures that deal with complication-related admissions are based on four of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Prevention Quality Indicators (PQIs):
  • Admissions for uncontrolled diabetes or short-term complications, per 100,000 population (PQI 1 - Diabetes Short-term Complication Admission Rate and PQI 14 - Uncontrolled Diabetes Admission Rate)
  • Admissions for diabetes long-term complications, per 100,000 population (PQI 3 - Diabetes Long-term Complication Admission Rate)
  • Admissions for lower-extremity amputation among patients with diabetes, per 100,000 population (PQI 16 - Rate of Lower-extremity Amputation among Patients with Diabetes)
NQF is a voluntary consensus standard-setting organization. It is a private, not-for-profit, public benefit corporation established in 1999 to standardize healthcare quality measurement and reporting. Established as a unique public-private partnership, NQF has broad participation from all sectors of the healthcare industry. Visit NQF on the web at http://www.qualityforum.org

 

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