Health Care Quality Indicators Project: Conceptual Framework Paper

This paper represents an attempt to set out a conceptual framework for the OECD’s Health Care Quality Indicator (HCQI) Project. Two main issues are tackled: what concepts, or dimensions, of quality of health care should be measured and how, in principle, should they be measured. The need for a conceptual framework for the Project was expressed by a large group of participating countries. In interviews by the OECD Secretariat with member countries in April and May 2005, country experts and delegates to the Group on Health reiterated the need for a framework for the OECD’s health care quality work. Countries stated that the framework should be: a) based on country experience and b) could be used to guide both current and future work by the OECD in health care quality measurement and monitoring. Ce document a pour objet de presenter le cadre conceptuel du projet de l’OCDE sur les indicateurs de la qualite des soins de sante (projet HCQI). Deux grandes questions y sont traitees : quels concepts, ou aspects, de la qualite des soins convient-il d’evaluer et comment ceux-ci doivent-ils en theorie etre evalues. La necessite d’elaborer un cadre conceptuel pour le projet a ete exprimee par un grand nombre de pays participants. Lors des entretiens menes par le Secretariat de l’OCDE avec les pays membres en avril et mai 2005, les experts et delegues nationaux aupres du Groupe sur la sante ont reaffirme la necessite d’elaborer un cadre pour les travaux de l’OCDE sur la qualite des soins de sante. Les pays ont indique que ce cadre devait a) etre fonde sur l’experience des pays et b) pouvoir etre utilise pour eclairer les travaux actuels et futurs de l’OCDE dans le domaine de l’evaluation et du suivi de la qualite des soins de sante.

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