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- EIN 26-2968498
- (703) 690-1987
- 5911 Kingstowne Village Pkwy Ste 13 Alexandria VA 22315-4644 USA
- www.pqaalliance.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Health, Health (General & Financing)
Mission: To improve the quality of medication management and use across healthcare settings with the goal of improving patients' health through a collaborative process to develop and implement performance measures and recognize examples of exceptional pharmacy quality.
Programs: The organization's programs are the following: 1) measure development and testing - pqa uses its resources to create and develop performance measures of appropriate medication use that can be used in various settings. These measures relate to patients' adherence to medications used to treat chronic diseases, patients' use of appropriate medications to avoid risk to the elderly population, and also measures to address appropriate use of several specific therapeutic categories of medications, that tend to be overused; 2) pqa also supports projects that utilize performance measures and create interventions that can be used at the point of care to drive improvements in quality and patient care.