We conducted an exploratory factor analysis using only the indicators in the Centers for Medicare And Medicaid Services'' Hospital Value‐Based Purchasing. Principal Findings There were four underlying dimensions of hospital quality: patient experience, mortality, and two clinical process dimensions. ...
Background In 2013, Danish policy-makers on a nationwide level decided to set up a national quality of care database for hospital-based emergency care in Denmark including the selection of quality indicators. The aim of the study was to describe the Delphi process that contributed to the select...
Quality of care/patient safety (measurement)Objective To evaluate the dimensionality of hospital quality indicators treated as unidimensional in a prior publication.Matthew S. CefaluRAND Corporation Santa Monica CaliforniaRAND Corporation Pittsburgh PennsylvaniaMarc N. Elliott...
Still, there is evidence that global readmission rates have a limited value as indicators of quality of care. For example, about half of the studies reviewed by Ashton et al4 failed to uncover any relationship between quality of care and readmissions. In all clinical conditions studied by Thomas...
Quality responds positively to rivals' quality for seven out of the sixteen quality indicators and does not respond for the others. When an effect is detected (for overall mortality rates, in-hospital stroke mortality, knee replacement readmissions, stroke readmission within 28 days, and three ...
Hospital hygiene has a long experience with quality indicators and is the only medical discipline with a hospital wide view. Indicators of hygienical structure, processes and outcomes are listed. Parameters with respect to processes are historically dominating. Important indicators of outcomes are also ...
and Middeke, M. (1999), "Integration of generic indicators for quality management in hospital information systems", International Journal of Medical Informatics, Vol. 55 No. 3, pp. 179-188.RATH, S. A. Integration of generic indicators for quality management in hospital information systems. ...
The first two articles in this series outlined the widespread use of hospital surveillance for infection control programs and the potential use of surveillance for monitoring noninfectious nosocomial events. The third article focused on quality indicators as potential targets for hospital surveillance. Surv...
5 As part of its broader efforts to develop a core set of quality indicators, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has recently endorsed the use of surgical mortality rates for 7 surgical procedures including repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm, esophageal resection, and hip ...
qualitycancerThe Belgian Health Care Knowledge Centre (KCE) conducted a literature search leading to twelve quality indicators for testicular cancer. Data obtained from three nationwide databases, showed only five fully measurable quality indicators, one was partially measurable, and two could be ...