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The OECD Health Care Quality Indicators Project: history and background [PDF]

International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 2006
To describe the background, history, and approach of the OECD Health Care Quality Indicators (HCQI) Project, an initiative to implement quality measures for international benchmarking of medical care at the health system level.The participating countries and international organizations selected five priority areas (cardiac care, diabetes, mental health,
Soeren, Mattke, Arnold M, Epstein, Sheila, Leatherman   +2 more
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Measuring and improving the quality of tuberculosis care: A framework and implications from the Lancet Global Health Commission

Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases, 2019
In this article, we describe the framework of the Lancet Global Health Commission on High Quality Health Systems, propose new and undermeasured indicators of TB care quality, and discuss implications of the Commission's key conclusions for measuring and ...
Catherine Arsenault, Sanam Roder-DeWan, Margaret E. Kruk   +2 more
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Perinatal quality indicators: yardsticks for quality of care, measures of population health

European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, 2013
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Can health care quality indicators be transferred between countries? [PDF]

Quality and Safety in Health Care, 2003
To evaluate the transferability of primary care quality indicators by comparing indicators for common clinical problems developed using the same method in the UK and the USA.Quality indicators developed in the USA for a range of common conditions using the RAND-UCLA appropriateness method were applied to 19 common primary care conditions in the UK. The
Marshall, MN, Shekelle, P, McGlynn, E. A, Campbell, SM, Brook, RH, Roland, M.   +5 more
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Assessment of variation in 30‐day mortality following cancer surgeries among older adults across US hospitals

Cancer Medicine, 2020
Background While public reporting of surgical outcomes for noncancer conditions is common, cancer surgeries have generally been excluded. This is true despite numerous studies showing outcomes to differ between hospitals based on their characteristics ...
Allison Lipitz‐Snyderman, Jessica A. Lavery, Peter B. Bach, Diane G. Li, Annie Yang, Vivian E. Strong, Ashley Russo, Katherine S. Panageas   +7 more
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Monitoring of Quality in Health Care Using Indicators: Challenges and Possible Solutions

Medicine, Law & Society, 2017
A number of stakeholders identified the need to revise the national set of quality indicators. The objectives of monitoring quality indicators that were determined in 2010 for the most part were not accomplished. Key reasons include: insufficient communication between stakeholders after the indicator set was introduced, insufficient definition of human
Mircha Poldrugovac, Tit Albreht
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Reliability of the interRAI suite of assessment instruments: a 12-country study of an integrated health information system [PDF]

, 2008
Background A multi-domain suite of instruments has been developed by the interRAI research collaborative to support assessment and care planning in mental health, aged care and disability services.
Bjorkgren, M., Gray Len, Gunnar Ljunggren, Morris John N, Finne-Soveri, H., Ljunggren Gunnar, Gray, L., Gilgen Reudi, Björkgren Magnus, Hirdes, J.P., Len Gray, Dinnus HM Frijters, Morris, J.N., John P Hirdes, Reudi Gilgen, Frijters, D.H.M., Ljunggren, G., Finne Soveri Harriet, Magnus Björkgren, John N Morris, Gilgen, R., Hirdes John P, Frijters Dinnus HM, Harriet Finne Soveri   +23 more
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Using indicators to quantify the potential to improve the quality of health care [PDF]

International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 2004
Although clinical indicators allow individual providers to monitor and improve their own performance and quality of care, another important role for the indicators is to provide comparative information across all providers. We show that the 'league table' approach is ineffective, and provide an alternative method that uses the comparative rates to ...
Gibberd, Robert, Hancock, Stephen, Howley, Peter, Richards, Kay   +3 more
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Quality Assurance Indicators of Long-Term Care in European Countries. ENEPRI Research Report No. 110, April 2012 [PDF]

, 2012
This study reports on the quality indicators that were collected by the ANCIEN project partners in each country considered in Work Package 5 (Quality in Long-Term Care).
Casanova, Georgia, Dandi, Roberto
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European Standard Clinical Practice Guideline and EXPeRT Recommendations for the Diagnosis and Management of Gastroenteropancreatic Neuroendocrine Neoplasms in Children and Adolescents

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Pediatric gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (GEP‐NENs) are extremely rare and clinically heterogeneous. Management has largely been extrapolated from adult practice. This European Standard Clinical Practice Guideline (ESCP), developed by the EXPeRT network in collaboration with adult NEN experts, provides (adult) evidence ...
Michaela Kuhlen, Calogero Virgone, Antje Redlich, Michael Abele, Ricardo Lopez‐Almaraz, Tal Ben‐Ami, Ewa Bien, Gianni Bisogno, Maja Mazic Cesen, Andrea Ferrari, Malgorzata A. Krawczyk, Yves Reguerre, Dominik T. Schneider, Ines B. Brecht, Charlotte Rigaud, Bilgehan Yalcin, Rainer Claus, Christian Vokuhl, Constantin Lapa, Jörg Fuchs, Segolene Hescot, Thomas Walter, Julien Hadoux, Daniel Orbach   +23 more
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