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Quality Indicators in Endometriosis Surgery
Published in Nazar N. Amso, Saikat Banerjee, Endometriosis, 2022
Caryl M. Thomas, Richard J. Penketh
Not every indicator measured, however, will prove useful or clinically relevant when assessing the quality of care provided. Hence, care is needed when setting quality indicators within endometriosis services to ensure that the measured endpoints are patient-centric, relevant and allow for the assessment of long-term outcomes. Quality indicators are tools which are carefully selected based on scientific evidence and expert judgment to allow for the efficient measurement of the quality of care provided (62). The use of these indicators along with contemporaneous audit allow us to benchmark and set new goals and standards to ensure that we continuously improve patient care.
Health reform in Turkey and inclusive policies
Published in Songül Çınaroğlu, Equity and Healthcare Reform in Developing Economies, 2020
Notably, healthcare system regulations positively affect healthcare outcomes. Under the effect of redistributive policies in healthcare, life expectancy at birth increased by 15.4%, from 65 years in 1990 to 75 years in 2009, reaching 78 years in 2015. In addition to objective health outcome indicators, subjective health outcomes, including patient satisfaction, have increased from 39.5% in 2003 to 75.9% in 2011 (Atun et al., 2013).
Monitoring of Quality
Published in A.F. Al-Assaf, Managed Care Quality, 2020
Remeasurement of indicators can provide important information to the health care organization. Changes in care or provision of services over time can be profiled by remeasurement. When significant improvement is attained for an indicator, remeasurement can define when it is appropriate to identify new areas for quality improvement. Indicators that fail to improve over time will warrant additional investigation as mentioned above.
Development of employment indicators to advance the quality of spinal cord injury rehabilitation care: SCI-High Project
Published in The Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine, 2021
Seyed Mohammad Alavinia, Arif Jetha, Sander L. Hitzig, Diana McCauley, François Routhier, Vanessa K. Noonan, Gary Linassi, Farnoosh Farahani, Maryam Omidvar, Gaya Jeyathevan, B. Catharine Craven
Implementation of quality indicators in an iterative manner can enable learning within the health system. Indicators are measures intended to inform how well a health system performs in terms of structures and processes of care, and provides insight into the associated patient outcomes. Structure indicators are defined by the properties of the setting in which the health care services occur29,30 while process indicators describe the specific activities in providing and receiving of care.31 Finally, outcome indicators evaluate health improvements (or deterioration) that can be attributed to the health care or therapy provided, such as mortality, morbidity, health status, health-related quality of life, patient/family/provider satisfaction, employment and functional ability.31
Development of community participation indicators to advance the quality of spinal cord injury rehabilitation: SCI-High Project
Published in The Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine, 2021
Sander L. Hitzig, Gaya Jeyathevan, Farnoosh Farahani, Vanessa K. Noonan, Gary Linassi, François Routhier, Arif Jetha, Diana McCauley, S. Mohammad Alavinia, Maryam Omidvar, B. Catharine Craven
Structure indicators encompass the properties of a setting in which healthcare services are delivered27 while process indicators describe the specific activities undertaken in providing and receiving care.28Outcome indicators describe the effects of healthcare to a specific individual or population (e.g. patient satisfaction, health-related quality of life, etc.).28 Throughout this process, a facilitated discussion occurred amongst the domain specific Working Group and the SCI-High Project Team to utilize relevant expertise on the topic, while ensuring that the broader goals of the SCI-High Project were aligned across the other 10 domain Working Groups (as appropriate). The selected indicators will be integrated into the larger Project framework to create a group of indicators and related best practices for routine implementation within a single rehabilitation program with project-wide report cards enabling cross site comparisons of structure, process and outcomes.
A survey of quality measurement in Canadian sleep centers
Published in Canadian Journal of Respiratory, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, 2021
Alicia Liang, Maria J. Santana, Sarah Perry, Sachin R. Pendharkar
Systematic measurement of quality of care can help to identify opportunities for improvement and subsequently evaluate improvement efforts.9 Additionally, quality measurement can be used by healthcare organizations to set performance standards (benchmarking), promote accountability and support accreditation. Quality indicators are well-defined, quantitative measures that are based on best-evidence or consensus and can be used to evaluate a specific aspect of healthcare quality.9 A comprehensive assessment of healthcare quality includes several different indicators that are intended to evaluate different quality dimensions; among the most common dimensions are those promoted by the Institute of Medicine (IOM): safety, effectiveness, patient-centeredness, timeliness, efficiency and equity.10 Quality indicators may be related to structures (eg, facility size, number or training of personnel), processes (eg, extent of clinical assessment, accuracy of test results) or outcomes (eg, clinical or patient-reported).11 The breadth of quality measurement may be assessed by categorizing quality indicators using such frameworks.