The innovation vector can be considered as an indicator of the amount of information introduced in the system by the actual measurements and the respective normalized norm can be used again as the measurement quality indicator.
In Section 4, we describe the measurement of quality indicators.
In the last decades, experts and medical societies have strongly recommended the measurement of quality indicators and the assessment of intensive care unit (ICU) performance [1, 2].
Examples of its current uses include care planning, outcome measurement and quality indicators [ 24, 25, 31].
The main strengths of this study are the large and representative population of pharmacies studied and the measurement of quality indicators in comparable populations.
In addition, we did not involve patients with diagnosis of T2DM, as the topics covered during the interviews required professional knowledge related to quality of prescribed medication and quality of care measurement using quality indicators.
The introduction of the nGMS contract to Scottish primary care has led to a substantial increase in the measurement of quality indicators and secondary preventative treatment of patients with prior stroke or TIA [ 4].
These Resident Assessment Instruments (RAIs) are used internationally in a wide variety of health care settings for a large number of applications including care planning, outcome measurement, and quality indicators [ 24].
Timeliness of the following activities is appropriate for routine measurement as quality indicators for surveillance sites: data reporting, specimen shipment to the laboratory for testing, receipt of specimens by the laboratory, laboratory processing and testing of specimens, and reporting of laboratory results.
Nearly all quality measurements entailed quality indicators for which no reference was made, or data reported, indicating that they had been developed scientifically as quality measures.
Yeap, H. L., Endersby, N. M., Johnson, P. H., Ritchie, S. A. & Hoffmann, A. A. Body size and wing shape measurements as quality indicators of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes destined for field release.
