Health systems performance assessment (HSPA) varies across the WHO European Region. This review summarizes HSPA domains and indicators used by Member States in their HSPA or health system-related reports. Thirty Member States published in the English language and from their latest documents, 1485 distinc...
The Health Foundation, an independent health care charity, was asked by
the Secretary of State for Health to review indicators of the quality of general
practice in England. We looked at how they could be made better to support
improvements to care, including how they are selected and presented.
Within t...
Sudan health system is based on the district health system approach, which emphasizes
the principles of primary health care (PHC). Nevertheless, the decentralization of the
public sector resulted in more deterioration of the PHC system particularly in rural and
peripheral areas due to lack of financial r...
The term “quality tools” is used in many different ways to refer to a method used by an individual, a team, an organization or a health system. It is most often used in a narrow sense in American texts to refer to a set of simple “continuous quality improvement” methods (CQI tools). More broadly,...
Measurement is central to the concept of quality improvement; it provides a means to define what hospitals actually do, and to compare that with the original targets in order to identify opportunities for improvement....