(NCQA: Washington) -- The National Committee for Quality Assurance, in collaboration with Mathematica Policy Research and the American Medical Association-convened Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement, recently released a set of measures assessing clinician performance in four areas of care for public comment. Twenty-two measures in four clinical topic areas comprise the set released for comment. These measures may be used for quality improvement efforts, maintenance of certification programs, or pay-for-performance initiatives.

“The link between quality measurement and improvement has been established by more than a decade’s worth of data,” says NCQA president Margaret E. O’Kane. “Our partnership with Mathematica and the Consortium to develop these and other specialized measures of care has helped shine the light of quality measurement in places it hasn’t been before—and will help [the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services] and others drive quality improvement in these areas of care.”

Clinician-level measures allow physicians, nurse practitioners and other health professionals to improve performance in specialty areas.

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