Content comparison and person-centeredness of standards for quality improvement in cardiovascular health care.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Quality standards are important for improving health care by providing compelling evidence for best practice. High quality person-centered health care requires information on patients' experience of disease and of functioning in daily life.

Objective

To analyze and compare the content of five Swedish National Quality Registries (NQRs) and two standard sets of the International Consortium of Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM) related to cardiovascular diseases.

Materials and methods

An analysis of 2588 variables (= data items) of five NQRs-the Swedish Registry of Congenital Heart Disease, Swedish Cardiac Arrest Registry, Swedish Catheter Ablation Registry, Swedish Heart Failure Registry, SWEDEHEART (including four sub-registries) and two ICHOM standard sets

SUBMITTER: Alguren B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7790275 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature