Existing tools, indicators and guidelines are reviewed, analysed and grouped according to characteristics and application.
The entries for the search were "climacteric" and/or "menopausal" and/or "postmenopausal women," "quality of care indicators" and "guidelines," and "family medicine clinics" or "primary care services".
Candidate indicators and guidelines were sourced by (1) targeting internet sites with existing clinical guidelines 13 31 65 and (2) adapting indicators used in the RAND study.
Presumably, the VA "system" of access to care, low cost for medications, use of quality indicators, and guideline-based management (above) helps to minimize potential disparities.
Another important aspect in this comparison between indicators studies and guidelines is that there are some indicators that are in both guidelines, but are only mentioned by one study.
What we do UNICEF helps to turn legislation into a reality through the development of indicators, standards and guidelines on violence.
We have developed and reinforced indicators, standards and guidelines to help health professionals identify and support the most marginalized children, and we share that information with the wider public.
Strengthening systems Having already played a major role in measures to tackle violence in education, UNICEF is now strengthening the ability of the health and social welfare services to prevent and respond to violence by providing indicators, standards and guidelines and supporting cross-sectoral training at municipal levels.
This method was first developed in the early 1950s as a tool for setting military priorities and since then, has been used to solve a variety of problems, such as helping groups develop educational priorities, performance indicators, and treatment guidelines [ 12- 16].
Carefully used, the use of quality indicators and improved guideline adherence can address suboptimal clinical outcomes, reduce practice variations, and narrow the gap between optimal and routine care.
The number of developed quality indicators and their guideline adherence (divergence) of each therapy sequence and of the overall binary adherence index are presented.
