Stroke care: how do we measure quality?

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...

How do we measure quality?

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 can we measure machine translation quality?

In this opinion paper, we describe our research work on machine translation evaluation approaches that include mechanisms for human feedback and are designed to allow partial adaptation of the translation models which are being evaluated. While there exists a plethora of different automatic evaluation metrics for machine translation, their output in terms of scores, distances, etc. quite often ...

How do you measure quality of life?

As cities change, researchers and policy makers try to understand the ways that economic, social, political and environmental factors as well as public policies influence the quality of life (QOL) of a place, and for groups and individuals. Many studies have been undertaken to identify and measure indicators, using quantitative and qualitative data sets, which contribute to QOL. An overview of ...