The Need to Simplify Measuring Quality in Health Care

Measuring the need for mental health care.

Measuring the quality of health care.

This Issue Brief examines some of the issues involved in defining and measuring the quality of health care and in implementing quality measures. It discusses the importance of measures of health care quality in the evolving health care delivery system, examines some of the conceptual issues involved in defining quality of care, and discusses some of the measures of health care quality and how t...

International approaches to measuring the quality of mental health care.

The importance of measuring the quality of mental health care is widely recognized. A number of factors should be considered when constructing mental health quality indicators including the aspects of care to be measured; translation of quality measurement concepts into indicators that can be measured; pilot-testing, analysis and display of measures; and maintaining effectiveness of performance...

The need to pay attention to differences in health literacy and knowledge in health education interventions

The Health Literacy (HL) is an individual and social capacity for access, understanding, evaluation of information and health services, and optimal utilization of it for health promotion [1]. Today, HL has been recognized as an important and vital indicator of the results and costs of health care the need for the effective health care system, has a good level of health literacy [2]. According t...

Methods of Measuring Health-Care Service Quality

Service quality is an elusive and abstract construct to measure, and extra actual medical outcome (O’Connor, Shewchuk, and Carney, 1994). A series of services marketing research, however, has effort is required to establish a valid measure. This study investigates the looked at the relationship between the services expected and psychometric properties of three different measurements of health-c...