The Value of Performance Measurement in Promoting Improvements in Women's Health.

Objectives: To determine the factors associated with the use and impact of performance data relevant to women's health.

Methods: We developed a survey on six levels of information use based on Knott and Wildavsky's (1980) policy utilization framework and used this survey to determine Ontario hospital administrators' use of women's health report indicators. We related responses to this survey to six potentially relevant organizational factors, such as women's health as a written hospital priority, a women's health program and hospital budget size, using correlation and multiple-regression analysis.