The literature reports numerous reasons for undertaking performance evaluation and for the majority of the reviewed studies performance evaluation denotes measurement of health care quality.
The time required [ 24] and cost associated [ 20, 27, 35] with the process of undertaking performance evaluation were reported as significant barriers.
However, the literature suggests that there are core elements involved in performance evaluation which include prioritising clinical areas for measurement, setting goals, selecting performance measures, identifying sources of feedback, undertaking performance measurement, and reporting the results to relevant stakeholders.
The literature suggests there are core elements involved in performance evaluation which include prioritising clinical areas for measurement, setting goals, selecting performance measures, identifying sources of feedback, undertaking performance measurement, and reporting the results to relevant stakeholders.
When undertaking performance evaluation, the objectives, procedures, participants (target groups), materials (e.g. training materials, interpretation guides, etc)., and premises for performance evaluation should be clearly identified and documented [ 25].
Despite these limitations, the findings presented in this review provide valuable insights to clinicians, managers and health service researchers that can assist with the development of a broad framework for undertaking performance evaluation.
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The identification and selection of appropriate performance measures (i.e. whether to use outcome or process measures, or both) is one of the most challenging activities for those who undertake performance evaluation.
Simultaneously, the quartet is in the midst of a mammoth undertaking: the performance of all 17 Beethoven string quartets.
Both proved assets in a bold undertaking: a performance of the British composer Michael Tippett's Symphony No. 4, a work probably unfamiliar to most of those assembled, onstage and off.
Subsequently, Teherani et al. categorised unsatisfactory behaviours demonstrated by students undertaking clinical performance examinations [ 3].
