Announcements

Announcements

How to Search by UMLS Codes

Learn more about how to search the NQMC Web site by specific UMLS vocabulary codes.

Conference News

Registration is now open for the Evidence-based Guidelines Affecting Policy, Practice and Stakeholders (E-GAPPS III) Conference. It will be held March 20-21, 2017 at The New York Academy of Medicine. The event is sponsored by the Guidelines International Network North America (G-I-N NA) and NYAM's Section on Evidence Based Health Care (SEBHC). The conference is titled "Beyond Implementation: Are Clinical Guidelines Improving Healthcare Quality?"

AHRQ Announces Funding Opportunity for Developing Measures of Shared Decisionmaking

A new funding opportunity announcement from AHRQ solicits applications for research projects to develop, test and evaluate measures of shared decisionmaking for research conducted in clinical settings. Shared decisionmaking is a collaborative process in which patients and members of their clinical team make health care decisions that are informed by scientific evidence as well as patients' values and preferences. Each project is expected to produce valid and reliable measures of shared decisionmaking, along with instructions for implementing the measures and documentation on the development, testing and evaluation of the measures. The maximum cost for each project is $500,000 per year and $1.5 million for up to three years.

Health Awareness Topics: February 2017

• AMD/Low Vision Awareness Month (see related measures)
• American Heart Month (see related measures)
• National Children's Dental Health Month (see related measures)

How to Participate

Submit Measures: Visit our Submit Measures page for information on how to submit your organization's measures.

Suggest a Measure for Possible Inclusion: Submit your suggestions for evidence-based quality measures and measure sets that you would like to see included in NQMC.