Development of a core set of quality indicators for paediatric primary care practices in Europe, COSI-PPC-EU.

Unlabelled: Paediatric ambulatory healthcare systems in Europe are, because of historical reasons, diverse and show strikingly different outcomes. All across Europe, the benchmarking of structures, processes and outcomes could reveal opportunities for improving Paediatric Primary Care (PPC). The aim of this study was to develop a set of Quality Indicators (QIs) to assess and monitor PPC in Europe.

Patient satisfaction with ambulatory care in Germany: effects of patient- and medical practice-related factors.

Objective: The study aimed to illustrate the effect of the patients' sex, age, self-rated health and medical practice specialization on patient satisfaction.

Design: Secondary analysis of patient survey data using multilevel analysis (generalized linear mixed model, medical practice as random effect) using a sequential modelling strategy. We examined the effects of the patients' sex, age, self-rated health and medical practice specialization on four patient satisfaction dimensions: medical practice organization, information, interaction, professional competence.

Mandatory quality reports in Germany from the hospitals' point of view: a cross-sectional observational study.

Background: Public reporting of hospital quality is to enable providers, patients and the public to make comparisons regarding the quality of care and thus contribute to informed decisions. It stimulates quality improvement activities in hospitals and thus positively impacts treatment results. Hospitals often use publicly reported data for further internal or external purposes.

Patient experience data in practice accreditation--an international comparison.

Objective: Accreditation of medical practices is widely used as a means to assure and improve medical care quality. Patient experience data contribute to a comprehensive quality assessment; some accreditation programmes therefore include patient surveys. Based on a commissioned work for Stiftung Praxissiegel, a provider of practice accreditation in Germany, nine international accreditation programmes were compared.