To work out a system of indicators for improvement of primary care prescription, by incorporating the values and views of the professionals issuing prescriptions.
In this study, we implement KIDMAP to summarize patients' perception about each individual hospital's performances, distribute KIDMAP reports to hospital staff through the Internet, so that they can easily recognize key indicators for improvement.
33 41 This study shows their perceived value and feasibility may vary by prescribing topic, 34 42 and any research or NHS use of prescribing indicators for improvement would therefore benefit from piloting and evaluation.
Actual treatment would have been a more proximal indicator for improvement in child health, but this was not possible because of differences between the 2 surveys.
In our study, administration of AqE-TFG caused a significant reduction in serum lipids (TC, TGs, LDL-C, and VLDL-C), cardiac risk indexes (AI and CRI), and apo-B levels which may be considered as a better indicator for improvement in risk of coronary heart disease.
The use of quality indicators (QIs) for improvement of care in the intensive care unit (ICU) is increasing.
The most successful indicators for quality improvement are indicators that are measurable, have potential for feasible improvement, are capable of detecting differences in scores and therefore of discriminating between organizations and are applicable to a large part of the population [ 14].
We assumed that improvement in sexual appetite; frequency and performance are logical indicators for the improvement in the overall wellbeing.
The consistently higher costs associated with cancer surgery PSIs indicate that substantial health care savings could be achieved by targeting these indicators for quality improvement.
Within financial incentive schemes, indicators may also be removed because achievement rates have reached a ceiling, thereby allowing new indicators, for which improvement is possible, to be introduced. 1 Incentives are intended to improve performance by changing physicians' behaviour, but even when this approach is successful the change may be temporary.
With information on large numbers of patients, he said, "you can look for adverse events and hopefully find indicators for clinical improvement".
