On the correlation between outcome indicators and the structure and process indicators used to proxy them in public health care reporting.

ABSTRACT: Hospital quality indicators provide valuable insights for quality improvement, empower patients to choose providers, and have become a cornerstone of value-based payment. As outcome indicators are cumbersome and expensive to measure, many health systems have relied on proxy indicators, such as structure and process indicators. In this paper, we assess the extent to which publicly reported structure and process indicators are correlated with outcome indicators, to determine if these provide useful signals to inform the public about the outcomes. Quality indicators for three conditions (breast and colorectal cancer, and hip replacement surgery) for Dutch hospitals (2011-2018) were collected. Structure and process indicators were compared to condition-specific outcome indicators and in-hospit

SUBMITTER: Salampessy BH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8526472 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature