Nineteen HEP outreach activity coverage and MNCH care practice indicators were calculated for each survey period, stratified by the inequity factors considered (i.e. age, education, wealth and distance from the nearest health facility).
In addition, more or better international best practice exemplars need to be sought for good practice indicators within the infrastructure support domains against which experts rate government performance.
Reasons for variations in rating scores for the good practice indicators are diverse: difficulty to rate, completeness and accuracy of the evidence presented, clarity of the good practice indicators and/or adequacy of international benchmarks to rate against.
Evidence on the extent of government implementation of actions, policies and infrastructure support systems was collected during the period February August 2013 for all good practice indicators within the 14 Food-EPI domains (table 1, column 2) for the current government's term.
International benchmarks for the good practice indicators within the different Food-EPI domains were mainly derived from the World Cancer Research Fund NOURISHING database 1 7 and from international experts.
Each cohort of practices pilots indicators for six months on a rolling basis.
In addition, the number of best practice indicator results was divided by the sum of best practice and not best practice indicator results for each indicator set within each hospital (i.e. relative proportion of best practice indicator results).
Practices with a higher caseload had similar achievement of quality for many aspects of management, but practices with higher caseload achieved higher scores, and in larger practices and more affluent practices for some indicators for initial diagnosis and management including referrals for exercise testing and/or specialist assessment, an echocardiogram, CT or MRI scan.
Brien et al. [ 59] discussed integrating evidence-based practice and performance indicators for specific health conditions.
It has become standard practice to combine several indicators for science, technology, and innovation to form composite numbers.
