The Agency for Healthcare Research ...

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) not long ago launched a Web-based National Quality Measures Clearinghouse that will provide physicians, hospitals, health plans, and others with the principally current evidence-based quality measures and measure stakes available to evaluate and improve the quality of health care. The Web site, www.qualitymeasures. ahrq.gov, allows users to search the National Quality Measures Clearinghouse for measures that target a disease or condition, treatment or intervention, age range, sex vulnerable population, setting of care, or contributing organization. The site also allows users to compare attributes of pair or more quality measures to determine which measures best fit their be in want ofs and provides material on by what mode to select, use, apply, and interpret a measure. This Web site will be part of a larger Web site of quality, clinical information, and decision tool constitutings that will include the National Guideline Clearinghouse at www.guideline.gov. For more information upon the criteria for submitting quality measures to be considered for inclusion in the National Quality Measures Clearinghouse, make progress online to www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/contact/ coninclusion.aspx.

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