 Quality Improvement Committee
Quality Health Care: The degree to which health services for individuals and populations increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes and are consistent with current professional knowledge.
—The Institute of Medicine
Vision
The ACCP Quality Improvement Committee (QIC) advocates for improved health-care outcomes for our patients by identifying, endorsing, and implementing quality improvement strategies, measures, and products that have a quantifiable impact on patient care.
Mission
The mission of the QIC will be to carry out the vision in the following ways:
- Participate in the development, endorsement, and implementation of the highest quality performance measures by collaborating with the most appropriate measures development and endorsement organizations, eg, the Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement (PCPI), National Quality Forum (NQF), National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), and Ambulatory Care Quality Alliance (AQA).
- Work in concert with the ACCP Health and Science Policy (HSP) Committee to identify specific recommendations, from ACCP evidence-based clinical practice guidelines, for proposal to measures development organizations for potential development into performance measures.
- Advocate for the modification or removal of performance measures that do not meet the needs of ACCP members’ patients or do not completely meet the QIC criteria for a “good” performance measure.
- Develop registries, educational materials, and other products to provide guidance to the ACCP membership on quality improvement measures, processes, benchmarking, implementation, reporting, analysis, and publication matters related to performance measurement and related programs, eg, pay for performance.
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