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Public health performance measurement

Applying the balanced scorecard to local public health performance measurement: deliberations and decisions
E Weir, N d’Entremont, S Stalker, K Kurji, V Robinson
BMC Public Health, 2009, 9:127

EBM in primary care

Perceptions, attitudes and knowledge of evidence-based medicine in primary care: a study protocol
P Alonso-Coello, I Sola, R Rotaeche, AI Gonzalez-Gonzalez, M Marzo-Castillejo, A Louro-Gonzalez, R Carrillo, P Velazquez, G Garcia-Velasco, C Calderon
BMC Health Services Research, 2009, 9:80

Research in action

Research in action: using positive deviance to improve quality of health care
EH Bradley, LA Curry, S Ramanadhan, L Rowe, IM Nembhard, HM Krumholz
Implementation Science, 2009, 4:25

Quality improvement measurement

Measuring for quality improvement
In partnership with professionals right across the NHS, the Department of Health and The NHS Information Centre have identified an initial, but evolving, set of indicators to describe the quality of a broad range of services – the Indicators for Quality Improvement.

Student opinion on improvement

What students think
This new article in Healthcare Executive describes how health professions students are learning about and applying the tools of quality improvement.

Quality improvement

Quality in primary health care: a multidimensional approach to complexity
I Heath, A Rubenstein, KC Stange, ML van Driel
British Medical Journal, 2009, 338(2nd April), pp911-913