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National Quality Forum.

601 Thirteenth Street, NW, Suite 500 North, Washington, DC 20005.

The National Quality Forum (NQF) is a private, not-for-profit membership organization created to develop and implement a national strategy for quality measurement and reporting. The NQF mission is to improve health care through endorsement of consensus-based national standards for use of performance data. These data provide meaningful information about whether care is safe, timely, beneficial, patient-centered, equitable, and efficient.

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