Performance measurement for health system improvement : experiences, challenges and prospects / edited by Peter C. Smith ... [et al.]. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2009. - xxii, 726 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - The Cambridge health economics, policy and management series . - Cambridge health economics, policy and management series. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Population health / Ellen Nolte, Chris Bain, Martin McKee -- Patient-reported outcome measures and performance measurement / Ray Fitzpatrick -- Measuring clinical quality and appropriateness / Elizabeth A. McGlynn -- Measuring financial protection in health / Adam Wagstaff -- Health systems of responsiveness : a measure of the acceptability of health-care processes and systems from the user's perspective / Nicole Valentine ... [et al.] -- Measuring equity of access to health care / Sara Allin, Cristina Hernández-Quevedo, Cristina Masseria -- Health system productivity and efficiency / Andrew Street, Unto Häkkinen -- Risk adjustment for performance measurement / Lisa I. Iezzoni -- Clinical surveillance and patient safety / Olivia Grigg, David Spiegelhalter -- Attribution and causality in health-care performance measurement / Darcey D. Terris, David C. Aron -- Using composite indicators to measure performance in health care / Maria Goddard, Rowena Jacobs -- Performance measurement in primary care / Helen Lester, Martin Roland -- Chronic care / Martin McKee, Ellen Nolte -- Performance measurement in mental health services / Rowena Jacobs, David McDaid -- Long-term care quality monitoring using the inteRAI common clinical assessment language / Vincent Mor ... [et al.] -- Targets and performance measurement / Peter C. Smith, Reinhard Busse -- Public performance reporting on quality information / Paul G. Shekelle -- Developing information technology capacity for performance measurement / Thomas D. Sequist, David W. Bates -- Incentives for health-care performance improvement / Douglas A. Conrad -- Performance measurement and professional improvement / Arnold M. Epstein -- International health system comparisons : from measurement challenge to management tool / Jeremy Veillard ... [et al.].

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