Guideline and Measure Summaries
Status
The National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC) and National Quality Measures Clearinghouse (NQMC) websites, including the primary content of guideline and measure summaries, respectively, are no longer available.
As a courtesy to our federal partner, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, who supported the availability of NQMC for the last two years (FY16 and FY17), we provide direct access to their quality measures content:
AHRQ make no warranties concerning the content or clinical efficacy or effectiveness of the quality measures and related materials represented through this link. Moreover, the views and opinions of developers or authors of measures represented through this link does not necessarily state or reflect those of AHRQ, and inclusion of this link may not be used for advertising or commercial endorsement purposes.
Inclusion Criteria
Lists the inclusion criteria that needed to be met for inclusion in both NGC and NQMC.
Domain Framework
Explains the classification of measures in the NQMC
Domain Definitions
List of definitions of terms in the NQMC domain framework