Monday, March 20, 2006

OECD - Health Care Quality Indicators Project Initial Indicators Report

OECD HEALTH WORKING PAPERS NO. 22
Soeren Mattke, Edward Kelley, Peter Scherer,
Jeremy Hurst, Maria Luisa Gil Lapetra
and the HCQI Expert Group Members
09-Mar-2006

The Health Care Quality Indicators Project has been divided into two phases. The initial phase, for which this report serves as the summary report, concentrated on 17 important and readily available indicators of effectiveness of care.

Future indicators to be considered in the second phase of work will consider a broader set of clinical conditions and other dimensions of health care quality.

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