Firstly, the translation of quality indicators into a survey resulted in the text of the survey questions not being identical to the indicator text.
While empirical evidence will likely continue to be collected and synthesized in the pursuit of defining quality breast cancer care, the translation of quality indicators (even with strong support from evidence and clinical consensus) into quality measures with an equally strong psychometric foundation is likely the most pressing need for this field of inquiry to progress.
While all projects were considered to be of at least moderate importance, several priorities emerged, in particular, research into international meta-data documentation and translation of patient safety indicators.
The three most highly ranked priorities were the documentation of data fields in each country's hospital administrative data (average score 8.4), the translation of patient safety indicators from ICD-9 to ICD-10 (average score 8.0), and the development and validation of algorithms to verify the logic and internal consistency of coding in hospital abstract data (average score 7.0).
We interpret these as indicators that our translation of the diagnosed asthma question was effective, well understood and measured asthma.
Two of the authors (SP, EK), having long-time experience with English to French translation of health services related content, translated the 82 indicators into French.
Third, tibiotalar ratio is not an absolute indicator of anterior translation of the talus.
This would require the translation of the elements of our model into indicators that could be assessed as part of a national breast cancer control checklist.
No set of indicators is perfect.
These provide a range of indicators.
Listing and standardisation of indicators.
