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  1. The OECD Health Care Quality Indicator (HCQI) Project was started in 2001. The long-term objective of the HCQI Project is to develop a set of indicators that can be used to raise questions for further investigation concerning quality of health care across countries. It was envisioned that the indicators that were finally recommended for inclusion in the HCQI measure set would be scientifically ...

  2. The OECD Health Care Quality Indicator (HCQI) Project was started in 2001. The long-term objective of the HCQI Project is to develop a set of indicators that can be used to raise questions for further investigation concerning quality of health care across countries.

    • Soeren Mattke, Edward Kelley, Peter Scherer, Jeremy Hurst, Maria Luisa Gil Lapetra
    • 2006
  3. The indicators presented here have been recommended by an expert group for further consideration in international reporting on the quality of care on the key dimension of safety. The indicators have been selected by expert consensus, undergone validity testing and have been tested for comparability.

    • Saskia Drösler, Patrick Romano, Lihan Wei
    • 2009
  4. Health Care Quality Indicators For Official Use 14. The HCQI program currently relies on the use of MS Excel spreadsheets to collect and upload data into the OECD databases. The SAS code used in the hospital performance project enables countries to generate and transmit data in a format that

  5. International Journal for Quality in Health Care; September 2006: pp. I -4 1 0. 1 093/intqhc/mzl0 1 9 The OECD Health Care Quality Indicators Project: history and background SOEREN MATTKE1, ARNOLD M. EPSTEIN2 AND SHEILA LEATHERMAN3 ^ECD, Health Policy Unit, Paris, France, 2Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, and 3University of North ...

  6. Abstract. Objective: To describe the background, history, and approach of the OECD Health Care Quality Indicators (HCQI) Project, an initiative to implement quality measures for international benchmarking of medical care at the health system level. Method: The participating countries and international organizations selected five priority areas ...

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  8. OECD Health Statistics offers the most comprehensive source of comparable statistics on health and health systems across OECD countries, and includes data found in the publication Health at a Glance. It provides data on the health status of the population including obesity (overweight, obese), suicide and life expectancy, health care financing, health care resources, social protection, health ...