Cross sectional study of performance indicators for English Primary Care Trusts: testing construct validity and identifying explanatory variables.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The performance of Primary Care Trusts in England is assessed and published using a number of different performance indicators. Our study has two broad purposes. Firstly, to find out whether pairs of indicators that purport to measure similar aspects of quality are correlated (as would be expected if they are both valid measures of the same construct). Secondly, we wanted to find out whether broad (global) indicators correlated with any particular features of Primary Care Trusts, such as expenditure per capita.

Methods

Cross sectional quantitative analysis using data from six 2004/05 PCT performance indicators for 303 English Primary Care Trusts from four sources in the public domain: Star Rating, aggregated Quality and Outcomes Framework scores, Dr Foster mortali

SUBMITTER: Brown C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1526428 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature