Quality Measures
Promoting high quality care in sleep medicine has always been a focus of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM), which accredited the first sleep center in 1977 and began developing evidence-based practice standards about 25 years ago. Today more than 2,500 AASM accredited sleep disorders centers across the U.S. are providing exceptional care for people who suffer from a chronic sleep disease. In keeping with its mission of promoting high quality care, the AASM has developed sleep quality measures for assessment and management of common sleep disorders.
The AASM continues to prioritize the promotion of high-quality care through quality measure development and implementation. A quality measure maintenance project was initiated in 2019. Each existing quality measure was reviewed and potentially revised to ensure that all measures remain consistent with the most current evidence and are harmonized with any existing quality measures to the greatest extent possible. Revised measures were approved by the AASM Board of Directors for implementation in Sleep CDR and for inclusion in national quality reporting programs, as appropriate.