Journal article
On measuring the quality of hospitals: A simple method of constructing a composite quality index
C Cheng, A Scott, V Sundararajan, J Yong
Journal of Health Organization and Management | EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD | Published : 2018
Abstract
Purpose: Researchers, policymakers and hospital managers often encounter numerous quality measures when assessing hospital quality. The purpose of this paper is to address the challenge of summarising, interpreting and comparing multiple quality measures across different quality dimensions by proposing a simple method of constructing a composite quality index. The method is applied to hospital administrative data to demonstrate its use in analysing hospital performance. Design/methodology/approach: Logistic and fixed effects regression analyses are applied to secondary admitted patient data from all hospitals in the state of Victoria, Australia for the period 2000/2001–2011/2012. Findings: T..
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Awarded by National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Acknowledgements
This research was funded by an NHMRC Partnership Grant (Grant ID: 567217) and in collaboration with the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services (formerly the Victorian Department of Health). The authors are grateful to Anna Burgess, Jon Evans, Peter McNair, Peter Carver and Ilias Mastoris for helpful comments and discussions. The authors would like to thank Ying Chen for helpful assistance with data access. This research has received ethics approval from the Humanities and Applied Sciences Human Ethics Sub-Committee of the University of Melbourne. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services.