Assessing quality of care: What are the implications of the potential lack of sensitivity of outcome measures to differences in quality?

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 243-248

  Mant, Jonathan ^a   Hicks, Nicholas R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Oxfordshire Dept of Public Health   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Outcome measures; Process measures; Quality of health care

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030276072     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.1996.tb00054.x     Document Type: Article

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