Also, indicators can represent one specific item of care or can average several items into a composite score.
In such cases, dentists clearly expected a more directly proportional link between cost and payment for each item of care.
Nurses missed a mean of 4 items of care.
Practice performance was operationalised in five specific composite measures, which reflected both patient experiences and the presence of specific items of care provision.
Comparing the 'best' and 'worst' practice environments (by taking the upper and lower deciles) the average number of items of care missed varied from 2.82 in the best practice environments compared with 5.61 for the poorest environments.
In terms of resource use and apart from the main therapeutic agents, scans, laboratory tests, and outpatient visits to monitor disease development represent the largest items of care during the active-treatment phase (Table 4).
In the QOF, markers are classified according to the Donabedian framework [ 29] based on measurable items of care, either as structure (e.g. facilities), process (e.g. prescribing) or outcome (e.g. mortality).
* Significantly different (p < 0.05) between groups in a multivariable linear model with age and gender as cofactors Quality of care was defined based on concepts of structure, process, and outcome [ 22, 23], and the interpretation of the outcome data discriminated between intervention- and process-related items of care [ 24, 25].
Seventeen treatment groups represented the items of care undertaken by NHS primary care dental providers in 2011/12 as shown in Table 2, and simulation suggests that the total amount of clinical time required to undertake all these treatments based on model parameters was 19.3 million hours.
From this we developed the MS Relapse Management Scale (MSRMS), a 42-item with four subscales: access to care (6 items), coordination of care (11 items), information (7 items), interpersonal care (18 items).
