RESEARCH OBJECTIVE This study examines the perspectives of a range of key hospital staff on the use, importance, scientific background, availability of data, feasibility of data collection, cost benefit aspects and availability of professional personnel for measurement of quality indicators among Iranian hospitals. The study aims to facilitate the use of quality indicators to improve quality of...

BACKGROUND Pancreatic cancer outcomes vary considerably among hospitals. Assessing pancreatic cancer care by using quality indicators could help reduce this variability. However, valid quality indicators are not currently available for pancreatic cancer management, and a composite assessment of the quality of pancreatic cancer care in the United States has not been done. METHODS Potential qua...

Despite extensive growth in recent years, the field of "quality-of-life" appraisal still evokes debate about basic perception of the concept and is accompanied by a plethora of indexes for measurement. One prime reason for the problems is that the measurements have been transferred from two separate sources - medical health status indexes and social-science population indexes - neither of which...

OBJECTIVE To develop a set of quality indicators focusing on the diagnosis and treatment of respiratory tract infections in general practice. DESIGN A modified 2-round Delphi study. SETTING General practice. SUBJECTS A panel of 27 experts (13 countries) comprising mainly general practitioners, clinical microbiologists, and clinical pharmacologists were asked to rate the relevance of 59 qu...

PURPOSE To review the literature on the content and development of the sets of quality indicators used in studies on the quality of diabetes care in primary care settings. DATA SOURCES The MEDLINE (Ovid), PubMed, PsychINFO, Embase and CINAHL databases were searched for relevant articles published up to January 2011. STUDY SELECTION and data extraction We included studies on the quality of a...

Quality indicators are tools to measure the quality of healthcare. To ensure the validity and comparability of obtained results and to save time, clinical quality indicators should ideally be derived automatically based on previously collected clinical data. Main problems on the path towards automated derivation are the lack of semantic interoperability between quality indicators and clinical d...

Considerable attention has been devoted to environmental assessment and monitoring, primarily by physical and biological scientists, and more recently by social scientists. However, population growth and global change have resulted in an imperative to assess the resiliency of the environment to adapt to large scale changes and to continue to produce goods and services for future generations (su...

• Quality and safety staff, as well as clinical and other staff (e.g., quality and/or patient safety officer at the hospital) involved in quality improvement work, should be involved in assessing the hospital’s performance on the QIs and making decisions on priorities for improvement. • Statisticians, data analysts, and programmers can help to calculate the QIs using data available from the hos...

ors recorded information about each article on a one-page abstraction form.Information coded included: 3 Indicator type (i.e. mortality, readmission, potentially overused procedures)3 Clinical domain (i.e. medical, surgical, obstetric, pediatric, and psychiatric)3 Measure category (i.e. structure, process, proxy-outcome, and outcome)3 Clinical rationale for the indicators.3 ...

BACKGROUND Despite the growing interest in assessing the quality of care for depression, there is little evidence to support measurement of the quality of primary care for depression. This study identified evidence-based quality indicators for monitoring, evaluating and improving the quality of care for depression in primary care settings. METHODS Ovid MEDLINE and Ovid PsycINFO databases, and...