<![CDATA[The quality of health care is on the agenda in most health care systems. Much of this interest in quality ofcare has developed in response to recent dramatic transformations of health care systems, accompanied bynew organizational structures and reimbursement strategies that may affect quality of care. Assessing thequality of care has become increasingly important to providers, regulators, and purchasers of care. Indicatorsfor performance and outcome measurement allow the quality of care and services to be measured. Thisassessment can be done by creating quality indicators that describe the performance that should occur fora particular type of patient or the related health outcomes, and then evaluating whether patients’ care isconsistent with the indicators based on evidence-based standards of care. Quality of care can be definedas ‘the degree to which health services for individuals and populations increase the likelihood of desiredhealth outcomes and are consistent with current professional knowledge’, and can be divided into differentdimensions according to the aspects of care being assessed. This paper will focus define clinical indicatorsin a standard way for a global audience, and to review a few classifications of clinical indicators that may beuseful to those who wish to measure quality of care and describe the performance of health care and relatedoutcomes.]]>
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