The OECD Health Care Quality Indicators Project: history and background

Beyond the initial indicators: lessons from the OECD Health Care Quality Indicators Project and the US National Healthcare Quality Report.

UNLABELLED Interest in comparative quality measurement and evaluation has grown considerably over the past two decades because of factors such as the recognition of widespread variation in clinical practice, the increased availability of evidence about medical effectiveness, and increasing concern about the cost and quality of health care. This article describes and contrasts two current effort...

OECD Health Care Quality Indicator Project. The expert panel on primary care prevention and health promotion.

PURPOSE This article describes a project undertaken as part of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)'s Healthcare Quality Indicator (HCQI) Project, which aimed to develop a set of quality indicators representing the domains of primary care, prevention and health promotion, and which could be used to assess the performance of primary care systems. METHODS Existing q...

Selecting indicators for the quality of diabetes care at the health systems level in OECD countries.

PURPOSE In the context of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Quality Indicators Project, a set of quality indicators for diabetes care was developed, to be used for benchmarking the performance of health care systems. BACKGROUND Diabetes complications markedly reduce quality and length of life and are also responsible for enormous health care costs. A large body ...

Applying the diabetes quality improvement project indicators in the Indian Health Service primary care setting.

OBJECTIVE With publication of the Diabetes Quality Improvement Project (DQIP) measures, the Indian Health Service National Diabetes Program applied the DQIP format to its IHS Diabetes Care and Outcomes Audit for comparison and benchmarks. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Since 1986 the IHS Diabetes Care and Outcomes Audit has been conducted by medical record review in >75% of IHS and tribal facili...

Health Care Quality Indicators in the Irish Health System