Selecting a QI Project

AAFP Criteria for Performance Measures -- The Academy supports health care quality improvement endeavors, including the development and application of performance measures that meet these criteria.

Top 20 Priority Areas for Improvement in Health Care Quality -- Access the Priority Areas for National Action, created in response to the Institute of Medicine's Quality Chasm report.
(12-page PDF file; About PDFs)

AMA Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement -- The Consortium currently has measurement sets in 43 clinical areas and preventive care, and more than 260 individual measures.

Ambulatory Care Quality Alliance (AQA) Recommended Starter Set -- Published in May 2005, the AQA starter set includes 26 measures that are aligned with the IOM’s priority areas.
(3-page PDF file; About PDFs)