The ability to measure population health trends and improvements can be enhanced through collaborative efforts to describe existing knowledge and via shared development opportunities. This paper highlights a project undertaken in Alberta which has created an inventory of health status indicators in use in the province, and provides a framework for strategic progress in the development and use o...

INTRODUCTION Since adoption of the measles case-based surveillance system in Zimbabwe in 1998, data has been routinely collected at all levels of the health delivery system and sent to national level with little or no documented evidence of use to identify risky populations, monitor impact of interventions and measure progress towards achieving measles elimination. We analysed this data to dete...

Safety performance monitoring through leading indicators is a key initiative that may be able to improve safety performance. Leading indicators are safety metrics that are associated with, and precede, an undesirable/unexpected consequence such as an operational incident, near miss or personal injury. Their utility for risk management comes from the possibility that they may reveal areas of wea...

performance evaluation in big organizations plays an important role in recognition of strategic and operational goals. regarding to this concept, some performance indicators and their communication with goals and activities must be assigned, measured and analyzed. nowadays information technology is a main driver of any business, as you know business process of information technology is differen...

Performance measurement is the basis of management with regard to controlling activities of an enterprise. Development of appropriate indicators and measurement techniques lead to many problems. Th e majority of enterprises begin to evaluate the effi ciency, by the implementation of fi nancial indicators that are practically incalculable. Only at a later stage, are measures used that are relate...

OBJECTIVE to develop indicators for the nursing outcome Swallowing Status and the respective conceptual and operational definitions validated by experts and in a clinical setting among patients after having experienced a stroke. METHOD methodological study with concept analysis and content and clinical validations. The Content Validation Index was verified for the scores assigned by 11 expert...

The purpose of the analysis machines for planting seedlings produced by various manufacturers was to determine best ratio balance prices and labor costs machine seedlings. It established that highest competitiveness coefficient obtained a 4-row with carousel apparatus.