Brief Timeline of How Measures Have Progressed

Quality Measures 2005^® builds on the foundations of our past standards and brings these principles forward into today's environment. In the 1970s and early 1980s CQL developed standards that were by and large place-based. These were institutional standards, with little that spoke about people.

By 1984, there was a sense of  "people" coming into the standards. We added habilitation standards. We were still talking about the place and what was going on in that place.

Throughout the 1990s, we moved away from place-based standards to the Personal Outcome Measures^®, a person based approach, and we defined the measures within the context of an organization (the place).

With Quality Measures 2005^® , we still focus on the individual, but move the place from the organization to the community.