Influences of hospital information systems, indicator data collection and computation on reported Dutch hospital performance indicator scores
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Influences of hospital information systems, indicator data collection and computation on reported Dutch hospital performance indicator scores
BACKGROUND For health care performance indicators (PIs) to be reliable, data underlying the PIs are required to be complete, accurate, consistent and reproducible. Given the lack of regulation of the data-systems used in the Netherlands, and the self-report based indicator scores, one would expect heterogeneity with respect to the data collection and the ways indicators are computed. This might...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Health Services Research
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1472-6963
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-13-212