Environmental scan on the current status of measures to track diagnostic quality (October 2019)

Summary

In 2019, the US-based National Quality Forum (NQF), is convening a new multi-stakeholder expert committee to revisit and build on the work of the Diagnostic Quality and Safety Committee.

This report updates a scan done when the National Quality Framework (NQF) diagnostic measures framework first came out in 2017. The assessment of the current state of diagnostic errors measurement, themes that have emerged since the earlier document and new measures that have been published may be of interest to researchers in the UK doing work in this important segment of patient safety work.