Indicators of Quality in Health Care

Health Care Quality Indicators in the Irish Health System

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...

Quality indicators for international benchmarking of mental health care.

OBJECTIVE To identify quality measures for international benchmarking of mental health care that assess important processes and outcomes of care, are scientifically sound, and are feasible to construct from preexisting data. DESIGN An international expert panel employed a consensus development process to select important, sound, and feasible measures based on a framework that balances these p...

Primary Health Care Quality Indicators for a More Sustainable Health Care System in Lithuania

Recent international research indicates that health care systems with stronger focus on primary care have better outcomes for less money than those with a strong focus on hospital care (Macinko, 2003; Starfield, 1998; 2005). This means that strong primary care increases sustainability of all health care systems. Nevertheless, when comparing different countries, the term primary care has differe...

Developing mental health-care quality indicators: toward a common framework.

OBJECTIVE Inconsistent performance measurement schemes hinder attempts to make international comparisons about mental health-care quality. This report describes a project undertaken by an international collaborative group that aims to develop a common framework of measures that will allow for international comparisons of mental health system performance. DESIGN Representatives from each count...