Title

National Quality Forum Metrics for Thoracic Surgery

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Thoracic Surgery Clinics

Abstract

The National Quality Forum (NQF) is a multistakeholder, nonprofit, membership-based organization improving health care through preferential use of valid performance measures. NQF-endorsed measures are considered the gold standard for health care measurement in the United States. The Society of Thoracic Surgeons is the steward of the only six NQF-endorsed general thoracic surgery measures. These measures include one structure measure (participation in a national general thoracic surgery database), two process measures (recording of clinical stage and recording performance status before lung and esophageal resections), and three outcome measures (risk-adjusted morbidity and mortality after lung and esophageal resections and risk-adjusted length of stay greater than 14 days after lobectomy).

First Page

245

Last Page

249

DOI

10.1016/j.thorsurg.2017.03.003

Publication Date

8-1-2017

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