Stakeholders Show Outpouring of Support on Quality Measure for African Americans with HF

At a recent meeting of the Cardiovascular Standing Committee of the National Quality Forum (NQF), the public comment docket was filled with an unprecedented outpouring of key stakeholder support for the National Minority Quality Forum’s (NMQF) eMeasure #2764, a heart failure performance measure that seeks to highlight access to standard of care treatment for African American heart failure (HF) patients. As the NMQF’s proposed performance measure continues on its path through a comprehensive, multi-year endorsement process, it has generated an unusually high level of public interest and support as part of a process that is rarely as engaged by the public. In part, this interest owes to a growing demand on the part of stakeholders for more population-based measures, like #2764, that take aim at persistent health disparities, as well as the singular and unambiguous need for better treatment for this particular patient cohort and the clear opportunity to save lives that are today needlessly lost.

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