family's, depends. The Finnish healthcare system provides comprehensive, high-quality healthcare ranging from primary to specialized medical care and from care for newborns to services for the elderly. In developing a quality measure, it must be tested to ensure that it is: Reliable. The tool measures what is intended. Go to: Institute of Medicine. Use of the tool results in the same reading regardless of who does the measuring or when and where the measurement is taken.

Org/ For more information on the Joint Commission, go to: intcommission. A system covering entire nation, as there are only five million of us, we cant afford to leave anyone behind.

Failure to meet standards of reliability, validity, and standardization. Conclusions about quality based on outcomes could be inaccurate if outcomes are not adjusted to determine whether patient characteristics or actual quality of care most affected the results. In addition, nationwide quality improvement programmes have hugely improved patient outcomes in the case of chronic diseases such as asthma and diabetes. Program management or quality improvement initiatives may be considered. The results of physician and other provider activities. Milbank Mem Fund Q 1966 Jul;44(3 Suppl:166-206. Examples : gores Personalailty Number of nurses per patient. Getting help to deal with a terminal illness. Answers to such questions require additional investigation and may serve as the starting point for program management initiatives or quality improvement efforts. Appropriate physician and other provider activities are carried out to deliver care. The Times, USA 2000:2.