We identified 55 existing headache quality indicators of which 37 evaluated processes of headache care.
Most quality indicators evaluated processes of care.
This suggests the importance of identifying, classifying, and evaluating process of landscape quality.
The purpose of this study was to evaluate process of care within a regional care model by comparing cardiac catheterization and revascularization rates and outcomes in ACS patients presenting to community and interventional hospitals.
In our earlier studies [ 13, 18] we operationalized the four dimensions of the model, identifying ten indicators of the dimensions to evaluate processes of collaboration.
They provide tools for evaluating processes of care (technical and interpersonal aspects of care delivered to patients) [ 22, 23] according to Donabedian's triad of structure, process, and outcome to conceptualize the quality of health care [ 24].
This clearly emphasizes the need for evaluating process parameters in context of the complete process.
Two studies have specifically evaluated the process of rationing new anti-cancer therapies.
This investigation evaluated standardized process of care data collected on selected hospitals serving a remote rural section of westernmost North Carolina.
