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Measurement of the safety and quality of health care

Year: 2006

Type: article

Abstract: Measurement of safety and quality is fundamental to health care delivery. A variety of measures are needed to fully understand the system; quantitative and qualitative measures are both useful in different ways. Measures need to be valid, reliable, accurate, timely, collectable, meaningful, relevant and important to those who will use them. Clinicians value appropriate measures and respond to them.

Source: The Medical Journal of Australia

DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2006.tb00363.x

Authors: Sarah Scobie, Richard Thomson, John J McNeil, Paddy A Phillips

Institutions: National Patient Safety Agency, Newcastle University, The Alfred Hospital, Monash University, Flinders University

Language: English

Topic: Healthcare Quality and Management

Subfield: Health Information Management

Field: Health Professions

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W94465520

FWCI: 7.308

Cites: 18

Cited by: 47

Related to: 10