Helping hospitals deliver better care: a new toolkit for quality improvement

"The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) contracted with a team of researchers from RAND and the University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC), a large collection of academic medical centers, to develop a toolkit for hospitals to support their quality improvement efforts based on the AHRQ quality indicators."

Helping hospitals deliver better care: a new toolkit for quality improvement
RAND Health
May 2012

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Postmenopausal osteoporosis management

"This report aims to inform the development of quality indicators for postmenopausal osteoporosis management through:
(a) assessing the evidence for screening and diagnosis of osteoporosis and related risk factors, and for prevention and treatment of osteoporosis and osteoporosis-related fractures;
(b) describing current practice for managing postmenopausal osteoporosis in Europe; and
(c) highlighting existing gaps in the evidence base and management practices in Europe."

Postmenopausal osteoporosis management: a review of the evidence to inform the development of quality indicators
A Conklin, O Yaqub, C Celia, E Nolte
RAND Europe
April 2012

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Incentive payments are not related to expected health gain in the pay for performance scheme for UK primary care

"When designing pay for performance programmes decisions about the size of the financial incentive attached to an indicator should be informed by information on the health gain to be expected from that indicator."

Incentive payments are not related to expected health gain in the pay for performance scheme for UK primary care: cross-sectional analysis
R Fleetcroft, N Steel, R Cookson, S Walker, A Howe
BMC Health Services Research, 2012, 12:94

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Guideline-based development of quality indicators

"For the efficient development of high-quality quality indicators, rigorous, approved, and evidence-based development methods are needed."

Methods for the guideline-based development of quality indicators - a systematic review
T Kotter, E Blozik, M Scherer
Implementation Science, 2012, 7:21

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