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Quality of care
• Available guidelines give tools and recommendations
• Guidelines are not self implementing
• Variation (in the quality) of care and access of services
• Evidence based quality indicators can reduce this variaton
Poddar et al., 2011
Quality indicators
‘Measurable elements of practice performance for which there is evidence or consensus that they can be used to assess the quality of care.’
Donabedian et al., 1988
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