New Heart Failure Clinical Performance and Quality Measures Endorsed by ISHLT
ISHLT has endorsed the recently published 2024 Update to the 2020 ACC/AHA Clinical Performance and Quality Measures for Adults With Heart Failure. Jointly developed by the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA), this document is a focused update to the 2020 report and describes performance measure for heart failure that are appropriate for public reporting or pay-for-performance programs. Measure sets developed by the ACC/AHA are intended to provide practitioners and institutions that deliver cardiovascular services with tools to measure the quality of care provided and identify opportunities for improvement.
Writing committees are instructed to consider the methodology of performance measure development and to ensure that the measures developed are aligned with ACC/AHA clinical practice guidelines. The writing committees are also charged with constructing measures that maximally capture important aspects of care quality, including timeliness, safety, effectiveness, efficiency, equity, and patient-centeredness, while minimizing, when possible, the reporting burden imposed on hospitals, practices, and practitioners