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The report is available in English with a French summary - KCE

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<strong>KCE</strong> <strong>report</strong>s 57 Musculoskeletal & Neurological Rehabilitation 191<br />

• Cont<strong>in</strong>uity of care.<br />

• Quality and appropriateness of services.<br />

• Leadership, ethics, and advocacy.<br />

• Plann<strong>in</strong>g and f<strong>in</strong>ancial management.<br />

• Human resources.<br />

• Accessibility.<br />

• Health and safety.<br />

• Outcomes management and performance improvement.<br />

• Infrastructure management<br />

<strong>The</strong> Ambulatory Care Quality Alliance (AQA) provides a l<strong>is</strong>t of 26 quality <strong>in</strong>dicators for<br />

peer review between sett<strong>in</strong>gszz.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Jo<strong>in</strong>t Comm<strong>is</strong>sion on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations provides different<br />

core measure sets. Organizations enl<strong>is</strong>ted <strong>in</strong> the program are enabled to compare their<br />

own performances <strong>with</strong> their peers. On the level of the health care professional, two<br />

performance measures are suggested. First, there <strong>is</strong> the ‘Centers for Medicare and<br />

Medicaid Services – Physician Voluntary Report<strong>in</strong>g Program’. A l<strong>is</strong>t of 16 measures <strong>is</strong><br />

asked to be <strong>report</strong>ed which serve as a base for compar<strong>is</strong>on between peers.<br />

<strong>The</strong> ‘Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement’ which <strong>is</strong> part of the<br />

American Medical Association selected 96 performance measures on 17 cl<strong>in</strong>ical topics.<br />

As <strong>with</strong> the other systems, the variables are selected from electronical patients’ records<br />

and entered <strong>in</strong> a uniform database. Reg<strong>is</strong>tered members have privileged access to the<br />

database to compare their own data <strong>with</strong> bl<strong>in</strong>ded grouped data from their peers.<br />

As mentioned before, many other <strong>in</strong>stitutes provide similar services and are ma<strong>in</strong>ly<br />

based on the sample pr<strong>in</strong>ciple of compar<strong>is</strong>on between peers.<br />

zz http://www.aqaalliance.org/performancewg.htm

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