caa a22 4500 397519222 CHVBK 20180308164628.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e199503 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/intqhc/7.1.39 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1093/intqhc/7.1.39 Balancing Science and Practice in Indicator Development: The Maryland Hospital Association Quality Indicator (QI) Project® [Elektronische Daten] [VAHÉ A. KAZANDJIAN, PARNELL WOOD, JANE LAWTHERS] This paper describes the technical and conceptual aspects in the development of an indicator project to measure hospital performance. Almost a decade ago, a research based—hence explorative, series of inpatient and ambulatory care indicators were developed. This paper describes some of the most fundamental technical and applied knowledge gleaned from the study and applicable to all quality assurance/quality improvement activities. These findings, and the resulting indicator development guiding principles, are based on more than 900 hospitals' experience in the US, Japan, and England. Although this paper presents the necessary scientific underpinning for a valid and reliable analysis, its principal emphasis is on the practical applicability of this decade old research project aimed at measuring select outputs of performance and identifying and explaining the determinants of these outputs. © 1995 Elsevier Science Ltd Articles nationallicence Indicators nationallicence quality nationallicence hospital comparisons nationallicence KAZANDJIAN VAHÉ A. Dept of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland Baltimore, Maryland, USA aut WOOD PARNELL Maryland Hospital Association Suite 800, Lutherville, Maryland, USA aut LAWTHERS JANE Dept of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, Suite 800, Lutherville, Maryland, USA aut International Journal for Quality in Health Care Oxford University Press 7/1(1995-03), 39-46 1353-4505 7:1<39 1995 7 intqhc https://doi.org/10.1093/intqhc/7.1.39 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/intqhc/7.1.39 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- KAZANDJIAN VAHÉ A. Dept of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland Baltimore, Maryland, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- WOOD PARNELL Maryland Hospital Association Suite 800, Lutherville, Maryland, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- LAWTHERS JANE Dept of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, Suite 800, Lutherville, Maryland, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Journal for Quality in Health Care Oxford University Press 7/1(1995-03), 39-46 1353-4505 7:1<39 1995 7 intqhc Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford