The National Quality Forum approved criteria that it will use when evaluating composite measures and at the same time endorsed new composite measures for adult and pediatric patient safety and mortality for selected conditions, writes Modern Healthcare.
Composite measures combine individual quality measures that are scored as a bundle. Until now, the NQF mainly has endorsed individual measures, but composite measures also are beneficial to providers and consumers seeking information about healthcare, according to an NQF news release. In addition to meeting NQF’s standard endorsement criteria, composite measures will be evaluated on the need to standardize scores, whether the components within the bundled measure should be weighed differently and whether the scoring method is appropriate.