How Do We Measure Project Success? A Survey

Editorial Commentary: Pseudomonas aeruginosa Eradication: How Do We Measure Success?

Lung disease remains the major cause of morbidity and mortality for people living with cystic fibrosis (CF) [1]. Dysfunctional chloride conductance in the airways results in impaired mucus clearance, which drives a vicious cycle of infection, inflammation, and airway destruction. Pseudomonas aeruginosa (Pa) is a bacterial pathogen largely feared by the CF community as its chronic presence is as...

How Do We Measure Comorbidity?

This chapter reviews methods used to measure comorbidity in the context of cancer; summarising methods, identifying contexts in which they have been used and assessing the validity, reliability and feasibility of each approach. Measures of comorbidity are categorised according to whether they are based on individual conditions or simple counts, on dysfunction/function of organ systems, on condi...

How do we measure quality?

Protecting the brain:how do we measure success?

The rationale for carotid revascularization, surgical or interventional, is to reduce the patient’s future risk of stroke. Unfortunately, carotid revascularization itself poses a risk of stroke, and enormous efforts have been made in refining both surgical and interventional techniques to reduce periprocedural stroke risk. The incidence of stroke during carotid endarterectomy (CEA) has been red...

Stroke care: how do we measure quality?

The purpose of this paper is to review the methods used to measure quality of stroke care. Relevant articles were searched for on Medline using the following key words: stroke, quality, outcome of care, process of care, structure of care. Articles that examined how to measure the quality of stroke care and that examined difficulties in the measurement of care outcomes, processes, and structures...