The strengths of the DKMS include a large sample size that increases every year and detailed registration of the quality indicators with regular quality assessment.
Results After adjustment for age, sex, dementia, and length of registration, attainment of quality indicators was significantly lower for residents of care homes than for those in the community for 14 of 16 indicators.
However, to be useful for research purposes, the data generated routinely from every day practice require registration of high quality.
Fourthly, the local pharmaceutical industry may benefit from incentives which favour registration of high-quality locally manufactured drug products over foreign imports.
The questionnaire should be suitable for registration and improvement of quality of cancer healthcare, through, for instance, the implementation in the auditing procedure of hospitals.
Multidisciplinary collaboration, registration, and use of quality indicators for the purpose of benchmarking, and substitution of care originally provided by family physicians and specialists to practice nurses and diabetes nurses, are a direct spin-off of the focus on and activities related to the implementation of the CS.
Given the considerable variability in the types of interventions evaluated in trials, comparison of registration quality between different intervention categories is difficult.
After adjustment for age, sex, dementia, length of registration, and practice, attainment of quality indicators was significantly lower (P<0.002) in care homes for all indicators except use of β blockers in heart failure and use of aspirin or anticoagulation in atrial fibrillation (table 2).
Furthermore, normalized value of the final cross correlation peak provides an estimation of registration quality.
