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International Journal for Quality in Health Care 8:107-109 (1996)
© 1996 International Society for Quality in Health Care

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Health Status Measurement and the Assessment of Medical Care

Jonathan Mant1 and Nicholas Hicks2

1Clinical Lecturer in Public Health Medicine, Department of Public Health and Primary Care Gibson Building, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, UK
2Consultant Public Health Physician, Oxfordshire Health Authority Headington, Oxford, UK

This article reviews the role of health status measures in the assessment of medical care. It is argued that such measures are of only limited value in assessing the performance of health care professionals and institutions because of confounding factors, problems of data collection and the play of chance. Nevertheless, health status measures should be incorporated as outcome measures into clinical trials since they can provide information on how individuals and institutions can improve performance and give health policy makers information about the effectiveness of interventions. It is concluded that the development of simpler measures of performance would be more practical than trying to overcome the limitations of health status measures in monitoring the quality of health care institutions. Copyright © 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd.

Keywords: Outcome measures, health status measurement, quality of care

J. Mant, Dept of Public Health & Primary Care, Gibson Building, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford OX2 6HE, UK. Tel. 01865 319128; Fax 01865 511635.

Received for publication February 5, 1996.
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