The National Quality Forum was established in 1999 for which purpose?
a. To identify and develop nursing-sensitive quality measures
b. To support state and health system efforts to implement and evaluate medical liability reform models
c. To allow the AHRQ to expand its work supporting comparative effectiveness research
d. To set standards for health care performance measures
ANS: D
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