Can health care quality indicators be transferred between countries?

Can health care quality indicators be transferred between countries?

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the transferability of primary care quality indicators by comparing indicators for common clinical problems developed using the same method in the UK and the USA. METHOD Quality indicators developed in the USA for a range of common conditions using the RAND-UCLA appropriateness method were applied to 19 common primary care conditions in the UK. The US indicators for the ...

Can models of agents be transferred between different areas?

RUTH AYLETT 1 , K ER S T I N DAUTENHAHN 2 , J IM DORAN 3 , M I CHAEL LUCK 4 , S CO T T MO S S 5 and MO SHE T ENNENHOLTZ 6 National Industrial Centre for Virtual Environments, Business House, University of Salford, UK Department of Cybernetics, University of Reading, UK Department of Computer Science, University of Essex, UK Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, UK Centre for Po...

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 ...

Quality of mental health care indicators to improve care.

The relevance of measuring quality of mental health care is widely recognized and a number of authors have defined quality of health care by describing this concept according to a set of dimensions and using different indicators. Despite the growing interest around these issues, in mental health care there is still a lack of agreement on the dimensions and measures which should be used as indic...

Health Care Quality Indicators in the Irish Health System