Most tools aimed at measuring appropriateness of hospital transfer, i.e., from the LTC facility to either ED or hospital ward.
Although the instrument used for measuring appropriateness of PDU needs to be developed specifically for this study, no other instruments known are suitable to investigate the appropriateness of PDU for NPS.
We did not consider other issues such as the choice of effect measure, appropriateness of combining high- and low-risk patients, the choice of a fixed vs. random effects model, or other methods for addressing heterogeneity.
These indicators will form the criteria against which the CTK part 2 study can, for the first time in Australia, measure appropriateness of paediatric care in 2012 and 2013.
Although attempts have been made to measure appropriateness of attendance in terms of a categorisation of the processes of care (whether patients have received treatments/investigations/referrals or are admitted, for example), it has proved problematic to achieve consensus about what processes of care make a visit appropriate.
This research should examine more direct quality of care measures, including appropriateness of pharmacotherapy and prospective morbidity and mortality.
To identify tools for measuring the appropriateness of drug therapy useful in patients with multiple chronic conditions.
Internationally, there is a lack of validated standards to guide health services in measuring the appropriateness of emergency department visits [1, 12, 13].
In our experience, the Gyssens' algorithm is a reliable tool to measure the appropriateness of antibiotic use and we recommend using this method for further studies for evaluating antimicrobial use in individual patients.
In Iran, a RAM was used to measure the appropriateness of caesarean deliveries [ 34, 39].
