The Patient Engagement in Quality Measurement Rubric

The Patient Engagement in Quality Measurement Rubric

The Patient Engagement in Quality Measurement Rubric is a guide to help meaningfully include the patient community as a partner across the quality measure lifecycle.

It was developed by a national roundtable convened by the Pharmacy Quality Alliance (PQA), in partnership with the National Health Council (NHC) and the National Quality Forum (NQF).

It describes the levels of engagement in quality measurement across patient-centered principles, and it also provides recommended activities to improve patient engagement.

Involving the patient community in the quality measure lifecycle enhances the development of measures that are easily understood, meaningful and useful for addressing quality issues important to the public.

The rubric can be applied in measure conceptualization, specification, testing, implementation, use, continuing evaluation and maintenance. It helps identify whether engagement is meaningful, progressing or low across four patient-centeredness principles: patient partnership, transparency, representativeness and meaningfulness.

Although the rubric was primarily designed to be used by measure developers, it is suitable for use by measure implementers and the patient community to characterize their engagement in measure development and guide how these partnerships can be enhanced.

The rubric initiative was supported by an independent educational grant from Merck & Co., Inc.