Amenable mortality as a performance indicator of Italian health-care services.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mortality amenable to health-care services ('amenable mortality') has been defined as "premature deaths that should not occur in the presence of timely and effective health care" and as "conditions for which effective clinical interventions exist." We analyzed the regional variability in health-care services using amenable mortality as a performance indicator. Convergent validity was examined against other indicators, such as health expenditure, GDP per capita, life expectancy at birth, disability-free life expectancy at age 15, number of diagnostic and laboratory tests per 1,000 inhabitants, and the prevalence of cancer and cardiovascular diseases.

Methods

Amenable mortality rate was calculated as the average annual number of deaths in the population aged 0-74 ye

SUBMITTER: Fantini MP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3506466 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature