Thursday 23 April 2015

Uses and abuses of performance data in healthcare

Uses and abuses of performance data in healthcare


This report describes how efforts to improve standards of patient care in the NHS are being undermined by performance measures that encourage ‘gaming’ and sap professional motivation. It makes a series of recommendations to tackle practices that distort the reliability of the information used to manage the standards of care delivered to patients. It outlines how better healthcare data from English hospitals has, overall, led to greater transparency. NHS Evidence
Report
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