Based on the joint analysis of the mortality and temperature data set, in the present study we aimed to better understand the health impact of heat waves in urban areas, assess the daily and cumulative minimum and maximum exposure to heat, and implement indicators of heat exposure for elderly people in relation to site of residence.
Local adaptations of this protocol could be used by policy-makers and researchers to empirically test the likely effect of implementing indicators.
This indicator testing protocol is one example of a protocol that may be useful in assessing potential quality indicators when adapted to specific country health care settings and may be of use to policy-makers and researchers worldwide to test the likely effect of implementing indicators prior to roll out.
The testing protocol described is one example of a protocol that may be useful in assessing potential quality indicators when adapted to specific country health care settings is and may be of use to policy-makers and researchers worldwide to test the likely effect of implementing indicators prior to roll out.
Findings indicated that most directors perceive they are implementing the indicators of program quality support in all of the areas surveyed.
In addition, the present research demonstrates that although there is a high percentage of European ports that have already implemented performance indicators, most of them do not mention the method applied to obtain the indicators.
Moreover, despite the lack of evidence for a relationship between TICS and achievement in this study, and the potential issues with the implemented curriculum indicators, the value of these indicators come also from their capacity to document changes in curriculum across time within countries and differences in curriculum between countries.
The same interpretation holds for the science domains, which vary in their number of implemented curriculum indicators: biology (7), chemistry (6), earth science (4), and physics (5).
The challenge is to find a fair balance between a narrow, easily implemented set of indicators that provides a limited picture of performance and a larger, more complex, but unwieldy set of indicators that gives a more complete picture.
We implemented performance indicators for the University hospital of Münster, Germany, a tertiary care referral center with approximately 1500 beds, using the report generator of ORBIS® from Agfa Healthcare [ 3].
