Selected article for: "decision making and public health decision making"

Author: Price, Alex; Schwartz, Robert; Cohen, Joanna; Manson, Heather; Scott, Fran
Title: Assessing Continuous Quality Improvement in Public Health: Adapting Lessons from Healthcare
  • Document date: 2017_2_23
  • ID: 4ujw0mn1_53
    Snippet: In addition, the availability of indicators that accurately reflect performance continues to be one of the greatest constraining factors to CQI in public health settings, as many have already pointed out, and one that sets it apart from healthcare (Kahan and Goodstadt 1999; Scutchfield et al. 2009; Weir et al. 2009 ). Public health unit informants were adamant that performance targets indicated by population health outcomes, which are subject to .....
    Document: In addition, the availability of indicators that accurately reflect performance continues to be one of the greatest constraining factors to CQI in public health settings, as many have already pointed out, and one that sets it apart from healthcare (Kahan and Goodstadt 1999; Scutchfield et al. 2009; Weir et al. 2009 ). Public health unit informants were adamant that performance targets indicated by population health outcomes, which are subject to numerous determinants outside of their control, were problematic. Given that CQI relies upon the quality of performance measurement information for informed decision-making, developing public health metrics that are more attributable to service outputs should be a priority.

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