ELSHMIN10 › Forum on the Quality of Care
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The OECD Health Care Quality Indicators (HCQI) team, has been developing internationally comparative information on the health of populations and the costs of health care since 2001. Information on a growing number of quality indicators covering area’s such as primary care (by measuring avoidable hospital admissions), acute care (by measuring in-hospital case fatality rates for AMI and stroke), mental health care (by recording re-admission rates to hospitals) and cancer care (gathering data on five-year survival, mortality and screening) is now available. Currently we are working on indicators on patient safety and the measuring of patient experiences.
In order to improve health care, quality indicators need to be of high quality. The problem facing many countries is that their health information systems need improving. Greater use of unique patient identifiers to match information from different data sources would often help enormously for example, however, too many countries have yet to introduce these. |
Issues to be discussed
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Time and Place
The Forum on the Quality of Care will be held on 7 October 2010, from 9:00 am till 12:30 pm, at the OECD Headquarters.
Please note that registration for the Forum is now closed.
Event of interest
Interested parties may also like to know that the 27th International Conference of the International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua) is being held in Paris just after this meeting on 10-13 October. Click here for details.
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