Bottle / Aylin Statistical Methods for Healthcare Performance Monitoring

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4822-4610-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 291 Seiten

Reihe: Chapman & Hall/CRC Biostatistics Series

This book provides an overview of statistical methods for measuring and monitoring healthcare performance. It covers the purpose of monitoring, data sources, types of measures for quality and safety of care, issues regarding their definition and measurement, statistical methods for comparing units and defining "outliers" or "changes" in performance, and presentation of results to stakeholders, including public reporting. Statistical details are given in an appendix, keeping the text accessible to a broad audience of applied statisticians and health service managers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bottle, Alex

Aylin, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Krankenhausmanagement, Praxismanagement
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Epidemiologie, Medizinische Statistik
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Stochastik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. Goals of performance monitoring. Examples of monitoring systems from around the world. Choosing the unit of analysis. What to measure: choosing and defining indicators. Data sources. Risk adjustment. Creating composite indicators. Setting performance thresholds and defining outliers. Making comparisons across national borders. Closing the feedback loop. Evaluation of the monitoring system. Appendix: Summary of main statistical issues.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Alex Bottle is a Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London, UK

Dr. Paul Aylin is a Professor at Imperial College London, UK