The information gained from application of the quality indicator sets to routine data can guide hospital management in tailoring quality improvement efforts.
20 21 The use of the partograph has been recommended as an important indicator to monitor routine intrapartum care.
This implies that there are no available routine clinical indicators to forecast relapse for HBeAg-negative CHB patients.
The Associazione Medici Diabetologi (AMD), an Italian diabetes scientific society, developed quality indicators to be used for the routine monitoring of diabetes care (9, 13).
8, 40, 41 A recent quality of care study conducted in Oromia showed significant improvements in several supply-side indicators in iCCM woredas relative to routine CCM woredas.
Despite their conceptual appeal, these indicators do not lend themselves to routine assessment or the rapid development of possible intervention strategies.
The workshop did not draw a firm conclusion about the value of serum GGT as a routine indicator to characterize DILI cases in clinical trials.
It is recommended that countries that intend to reduce maternal mortality should attempt to include EmOC process indicators into routine health management information systems to track progress in safe motherhood both nationally and at the lower levels of the health system [ 10, 11].
However, the group was mindful of the need not to place too much of a reporting burden on countries and therefore, where possible, to prioritize indicators for which routine monitoring and published data were readily available in most countries.
For programming and future evaluation purposes, systems could be established to measure indicators either on routine basis from all callers or periodically from a subset.
