Healthcare quality indicators--a systematic review.

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to review the literature on quality model development, validation and limitations.

Design/methodology/approach: The systematic literature review used online journal indexes between January 1995 and April 2010. International studies focusing on multiple functional domains and those in which development methods were selected.

Integrated breast diseases research and cancer registry in Turkey.

A system we call BDRS is implemented as an integrated disease specific system for breast diseases in order to obtain and use patient health data for clinical research, cancer registry and clinical care. It is an open, flexible and modular system that supports multi-institutional and multi-viewed utilization of health data. Three-tier web based architecture, and object oriented technologies have been employed to ensure its extendibility.