DUQuE AMI clinical indicators were compared against the 'Indicator Specification: Acute Coronary Syndromes Clinical Care Standard', developed by the ACSQHC and certified by the Federal Minister for Health.
Indicators developed for this registry align with the 'Indicator Specification: Acute Stroke Clinical Care Standard', developed by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (ACSQHC) and certified by the Federal Minister for Health.
Indicators, data specifications and data flow models were sent to the FJC and to the medical societies for open consultation.
As it turned out that some indicators were specifications of other, more general indicators, in the long list that resulted from this first elimination a hierarchy was made in core indicators and indicators addressing additional information items.
The methodology progressed from the development of key strategic objectives (using the BSC and strategy maps), through a structured decomposition of necessary organizational activities, the construction of key performance indicators, the specification of targets, to communication and future planning.
Each indicator included specifications in order to provide sufficient detail and so that they would be applied consistently across settings.
Panel members will be mailed a one-page monograph for each QI describing the indicator (definition, specifications for numerator, denominator, etc)., and summarizing the evidence from the Patient and Family Focus Groups (Sub-Study A) in the form of direct quotes from focus group participants with descriptions of discussion in the focus groups.
The outcome variable is an employment indicator (or, in some specifications, an indicator for having an income above some positive threshold) for individual i in year t.
With the help of a principle approach for the geometrical tolerancing maturity relevant indicators like "Tolerance specification" or "Validation of specification" are elicited and sub- divided into their characteristics.
Specification (1) includes age and education indicators as covariates; specification (2) includes the contemporaneous metro-average covariates used in the wage regressions and described above.11.11
