Symposium: Indicators for Patient Safety and Quality

In the last few years clinical indicators have moved from tools for monitoring progress in internal improvement activities to play a major part in the external evaluation of professional institutions and national health care systems within patient safety and quality improvement.

by: Noel Harrington. on 05-11-2007

Three main issues seem to be discussed presently in Europe:

The evidence for the value of indicator monitoring – apart from control and command accountability
Can we make patient safety activities accountable by indicator monitoring?
What is the need for different indicator systems on the European scene (OECD, WHO, PATH, SIMPatIE, Scandinavian, Eastern European and the various national indicators).

The first symposium hosted by the ESQH Office for Quality Indicators deals with these issues. It commences at 15:00 on Wednesday 9 January and finishes at 16.30 on Thursday 10.

The language of the symposium is English.

There is a maximum of 90 participants and we advise you to register as soon as possible!

Please see the enclosed pdf-file for further details AND please feel free to distribute this invitation.


Also we want to draw your attention to the reports of the SIMPatIE projects on Patient Safety Indicators http://www.simpatie.org/Main/pf1175587453/wp1175588035/wp1176820943


Best regards

Paul Bartels and Jan Mainz
Maybritt Pedersen and Solvejg Kristensen


Olof Palmes Allé 15 ♦ 8200 Aarhus N ♦ Denmark
Email: esqh@rm.dk
Tel: +45 8728 4979 / Mob: +45 2938 8364
www.esqh.net

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