Background: Polytrauma is still the major cause of death in children all over world. Initial evaluation and management should be approached by teamwork that includes pediatric physicians, intensive care trauma surgeons. Trauma provides injured with life- limb-saving treatment, but it unclear if proper tools have been developed to measure quality delivered. Objective: To review indicators for ev...

BACKGROUND Measurement of the quality of health care is essential for quality improvement, and patients are an underused source of data about quality of care. We describe the adaptation of a set of USA quality indicators for use in patient interview surveys in England, to measure the extent to which older patients receive a broad range of effective health care interventions in both primary and ...

BACKGROUND Communication between involved parties is essential to ensure coordinated and safe health care delivery. However, existing literature reveals that the information relayed in the referral process is seen as insufficient by the receivers. It is unknown how this insufficiency affects the quality of care, and valid performance measures to explore it are lacking. The aim of the present st...

BACKGROUND In recent years, there have been several studies, using a wide variety of methods, aimed at developing quality indicators for palliative care. In this Quality Indicators for Palliative Care study (Q-PAC study) we have applied a scientifically rigorous method to develop a comprehensive and valid quality indicator set which can contribute to a standardized method for use in other count...

OBJECTIVES Emergency departments (EDs), similar to other health care environments, are concerned with improving the quality of patient care. Older patients comprise a large, growing, and particularly vulnerable subset of ED users. The project objective was to develop ED-specific quality indicators for older patients to help practitioners identify quality gaps and focus quality improvement effor...

There is a widespread and increasing tendency to develop hospital performance indicators in the field of accreditation/certification system and quality benchmarking. The aim of this study was to identify the relationship between accreditation and quality indicators used in hospital care services. A systematic review of literature was carried out. The search used the data base of MEDLINE in the ...

ors recorded information about each article on a one-page abstraction form.Information coded included: Indicator type (i.e. mortality, readmission, potentially overused procedures)Clinical domain (i.e. medical, surgical, obstetric, pediatric, and psychiatric)Measure category (i.e. structure, process, proxy-outcome, and outcome)Clinical rationale for the indicators.Use of lon...