Leiden University Scholarly Publications

Measuring what matters: refining our approach to quality indicators

Grand rounds in methodology

Grand rounds in methodology

Effectiveness of a multifaceted quality improvement intervention to improve patient outcomes after total hip and knee arthroplasty

Effectiveness of a multifaceted quality improvement intervention to improve patient outcomes after total hip and knee arthroplasty

The problem with making Safety-II work in healthcare

Competing risks in quality and safety research: a framework to guide choice of analysis and improve reporting

Moving beyond the weekend effect: how can we best target interventions to improve patient care?

Enhancing feedback on performance measures

Identifying adverse events: reflections on an imperfect gold standard after 20 years of patient safety research

Connecting perspectives on quality and safety: patient-level linkage of incident, adverse event and complaint data

Ranking hospitals: do we gain reliability by using composite rather than individual indicators?

Mortality alerts, actions taken and declining mortality: true effect or regression to the mean?

The problem with using patient complaints for improvement

Mortality, readmission and length of stay have different relationships using hospital-level versus patient-level data: an example of the ecological fallacy affecting hospital performance indicators

Measurement with a wink

Implementation and de-implementation: two sides of the same coin?

Exclusions in the denominators of process-based quality measures: the missing link in understanding performance or ecological fallacy?

Meta-analysis of the central line bundle for preventing catheter-related infections: a case study in appraising the evidence in quality improvement

Temporal trends in patient safety in the Netherlands: reductions in preventable adverse events or the end of adverse events as a useful metric?

Measuring the effect of Choosing Wisely: an integrated framework to assess campaign impact on low-value care

Simpson's paradox: how performance measurement can fail even with perfect risk adjustment

EVALUATION OF QUALITY OF CARE USING REGISTRY DATA: THE INTERRELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LENGTH-OF-STAY, READMISSION AND MORTALITY AND IMPACT ON HOSPITAL OUTCOMES

How can clinical practice guidelines be adapted to facilitate shared decision making? A qualitative key-informant study