A large number of prescribing quality indicators based on register data have been proposed and many are used routinely in quality management. Often the content and face validity of indicators have been assessed by consensus methods, but studies analysing other validity aspects are scarce. Prescription data are frequently used for indicators, but they do not provide any direct information about ...

Park has important ecological, social and economic values serving as an urban open space with high usage frequency. After its completion, the environmental service quality of the park should be constantly improved to better serve the public. The park in Xinxiang Economic Development Zone, Henan Province, is investigated in this study. A total of 18 environmental service quality indicators of th...

This article presents quality indicators for experimental and quasi-experimental studies for special education. These indicators are intended to not only evaluate the merits of a completed research report or article but also to serve as an organizer of critical issues for consideration in research. We believe these indicators can be used widely, from assisting in the development of research pla...

AIM Colonoscopy has become accepted as the most effective method for colon exploration. Some application problems have been detected in the setting of normal clinical care due to its wide range of uses in recent years, and therefore there is a need to measure colonoscopy quality. For that purpose valid quality indicators are necessary to be defined. The application process of some quality indic...

OBJECTIVES To identify the key performance indicators for hospital information systems (HIS) that can be used for HIS benchmarking. METHODS A Delphi survey with one qualitative and two quantitative rounds. Forty-four HIS experts from health care IT practice and academia participated in all three rounds. RESULTS Seventy-seven performance indicators were identified and organized into eight ca...

OBJECTIVE This paper provides a brief review of definitions, characteristics, and categories of clinical indicators for quality improvement in health care. ANALYSIS Clinical indicators assess particular health structures, processes, and outcomes. They can be rate- or mean-based, providing a quantitative basis for quality improvement, or sentinel, identifying incidents of care that trigger fur...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Quality indicators serve as standards of care by which performance of individual hospitals is measured. Although several audits for monitoring quality of stroke care have been established in Europe, there is currently no consensus on quality indicators for acute stroke care or for methodology for collecting information on these measures. METHODS An up-to-date inventory ...

BACKGROUND In the choice and definition of quality of care indicators, there may be an inherent tension between feasibility, generally enhanced by simplicity, and validity, generally enhanced by accounting for clinical complexity. OBJECTIVE To study the process of developing quality indicators using an expert panel and analyze the tension between feasibility and validity. DESIGN AND PARTICI...

BACKGROUND Quality indicators are increasingly used to measure the quality of care and compare quality across hospitals. In the Netherlands over the past few years numerous hospital quality indicators have been developed and reported. Dutch indicators are mainly based on expert consensus and face validity and little is known about their construct validity. Therefore, we aim to study the constru...

BACKGROUND Transparency in diabetes care requires quality indicators that are of interest to stakeholders in order to optimise their usage. Indicator development is often focused on consensus, and little is known about stakeholders' preferences for information on quality. AIM To explore the preferences of consumers, providers, purchasers and policy makers for different quality domains and ind...