OECD Health Technical Papers

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ISSN :
1815-2023 (online)
DOI :
10.1787/18152023
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This series is designed to make available to a wider readership methodological studies and statistical analysis presenting and interpreting new data sources, and empirical results and developments in methodology related to measuring and assessing health care and health expenditure. The papers are generally available only in their original language - English or French - with a summary in the other.
 

Facilitating Cross National Comparisons of Indicators for Patient Safety at the Health System Level in the OECD Countries You or your institution have access to this content

Authors:
Saskia Drösler1
Author Affiliations
  • 1: Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Publication Date
07 Apr 2008
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No.:
19
Pages
242
DOI
10.1787/242227845345

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This publication was prepared to support the overall work of the OECD Health Care Quality Indicators Project in developing a set of indicators that can be used to raise questions for investigation concerning the quality of care across countries. It provides a manual to facilitate cross national comparisons of indicators for patient safety through the provision of detailed practical advice on calculating each indicator in a selected set of Patient Safety Indicators (PSI) utilising national hospital administrative databases...