OBJECTIVE To identify performance indicators for family practice that focus on
organizational structures and clinical processes of care, to review evidence linking …

Purpose To evaluate the appropriateness of potential data sources for the population of
performance indicators for primary care (PC) practices. Methods This project was a cross …

OBJECTIVE To assess the clinical performance of a representative non-volunteer sample of
family physicians in metropolitan Montreal, Que. DESIGN Assessment of clinical …

Background: Determining which patient outcome indicators may be appropriate to include in
a primary care, practice performance tool is a difficult task. Unfortunately, no published …

Background: Performance indicators assessing the quality of medical care and linked to pay
for performance may cause disagreement. Portuguese indicators included in recent health …

Performance measurement has become one of the foundations of current efforts to improve
health care quality and has successfully increased compliance with practice guidelines in …

Background and objectives There is now a wide variety of methods available to general
practitioners who want to engage in quality assessment, quality assurance, or quality …

Background: In many countries, quality indicators are used to assess the quality of care of
family practice. Such assessments need to have an adequate precision, so that the results …

Background Patient experience is increasingly used to assess organizational performance,
for example in public reporting or pay-for-performance schemes. Conventional approaches …

Purpose. Primary care is the cornerstone of the health care system and increasingly
countries are developing indicators for assessing quality in primary care practices. The …