Comparing year with year solves that problem but introduces another set of concerns, including timeliness.
Efficiency relates to how well inputs are converted to the output of interest and can be interpreted in many ways including timeliness, consistency, and cost-efficiency.
In a fascinating commentary published in the Dec. 14 issue of JAMA, Allan S. Detsky, M.D., Ph.D., contends that the No. 1 thing consumers want from the health care system is, quite simply, to be better when ill. Detsky says patients want certain qualities from their health care providers, including timeliness, kindness, hope and certainty, and a trusting relationship.
This finding is independent of multiple potential confounders including timeliness of antibiotic treatment.
To monitor the performance of NDRS, CCDC has developed a series of indicators including timeliness, proportions of duplicated and missing reports.
It will require careful attention to process over time including timeliness of reviews, useful revisions to projects, and input from multiple perspectives and stakeholders including patients.
It consists of 10 statements relating to three latent factors of motivation: organisational commitment, job satisfaction (including general motivation and burnout) and conscientiousness (including timeliness and attendance).
Outcomes measured at three month intervals include timeliness of care, patient adherence, patient satisfaction, quality of life, self-efficacy, health literacy, and cancer knowledge.
The latter included timeliness and attendance, behavior to patients, conscientiousness, and cooperation, which are all constructs that lend themselves to a degree of verification by others.
Performance indicators including timeliness and false alarm rates can be applied temporally or spatio-temporally to assess whether alarms occur during a defined outbreak period and in an outbreak-related location.
