WHO - Hospital performance

www.euro.who.int/hosmgt/20030224_2

The objective of the project is to support hospitals in assessing their performance, questioning their own results, and translating them into actions for quality improvement.

This is done by providing hospitals with integrated tools for performance assessment and by enabling collegial support and networking among them.

Performance assessment will be designed for internal use and on a voluntary basis. It does not aim at external reporting or at being used by any local or national agency for restructuring purpose.

A Performance Assessment Tool for quality improvement in Hospitals (PATH) has been developed to support hospitals in improving their performance.
It is presently (2004) being piloted in 67 hospitals in Belgium, Denmark, France, Lithuania, Poland (Silesia region), Slovakia, South Africa (Kwazulu-Natal) and Canada (Ontario).

Selection of indicators for hospital measurement performance
www.euro.who.int/hosmgt/publications/20040902_1

Pilot implementation of PATH
www.euro.who.int/hosmgt/publications/20040903_1