OECD - Health Care Quality Indicators Project Conceptual Framework Paper

OECD HEALTH WORKING PAPERS NO. 23
Edward Kelley and Jeremy Hurst
09-Mar-2006

This paper represents an attempt to set out a conceptual framework for the OECD's Health Care Quality Indicator (HCQI) Project.

Two main issues are tackled: what concepts, or dimensions, of quality of health care should be measured and how, in principle, should they be measured.

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