AHRQ NAC Subcommittee on Children's Healthcare Quality Measures for Medicaid and CHIP Programs

Consensus on Criteria Definitions (continued)

Importance

• The measure should be actionable.
• Cost of the condition to the Nation should be high.
• Health care systems are clearly accountable for the quality problem assessed by the measure.
• The extent of the quality problem should be substantial.
• There should be documented variation in performance on the measure.
• The measure should be representative of a class of quality problems: "sentinel measure" of quality of care provided for preventive care, mental health care, or dental care, etc.