NBHC Care Experience
September 28, 2017
The National Quality Forum's blueprint calls on providers and payers to invest in evidence-based interventions to allow them to better measure and assess healthcare disparities. NQF urged stakeholders to re-evaluate how they use quality measures and to invest in ways to create new measures that will help reduce health disparities and promote health equity. To help identify measures, NQF offers four criteria to assist stakeholders in identifying measures capable of detecting disparities:
- Hospitals and health plans identify and prioritize reducing disparities by stratifying and risk adjusting performance measures by social risk factors that produce disparities and distinguishing which they can address in the short- and long-term;
- Clinicians implement evidence-based interventions by connecting patients to community-based services or culturally tailored programs shown to mitigate the drivers of disparities;
- Measure developers work with patients to translate concepts of equity into performance measures that can directly assess health equity; and
- Policymakers and payers incentivize the reduction of disparities and the promotion of health equity by building health equity measures into new and existing healthcare payment models.
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