Clinical variation: why it matters
Understanding variation in care is an important step in improving patient health outcomes through appropriate care
Anne Duggan · Elizabeth Koff · Villis Marshall
English lessons: can publishing an atlas of variation stimulate the discussion on appropriateness of care?
Health systems around the world are facing the twin pressures of increasing demand for services, and a lack of resources as a consequence of economic slowdown in many countries
Philip DaSilva · JA Muir Gray
Clinical care standards: appropriate care everywhere — acute coronary syndromes as an example
Australian practice data from clinical audits and other research have clearly shown that dissemination of high quality clinical practice guidelines is not enough to ensure everyone with a particular clinical condition receives appropriate care
Derek P Chew · Robert Herkes · Meredith A Page
Appropriate care for older people with cognitive impairment in hospital
More than half of the patients in adult hospitals are over 65 years of age
Gideon A Caplan · Susan E Kurrle · Anne Cumming
Antimicrobial use in Australian hospitals: how much and how appropriate?
Antimicrobial agents play a central role in modern health care, especially in the hospital setting
John D Turnidge · Karin Thursky · Caroline S Chen · Vicki R McNeil · Irene J Wilkinson
Clinical quality registries have the potential to drive improvements in the appropriateness of care
The effectiveness of clinical quality registries to monitor and benchmark patient outcomes is well established
Nick Wilcox · John J McNeil
Paying hospitals for quality: can we buy better care?
Economic theory predicts that changing financial rewards will change behaviour. This is valid in terms of service use; higher costs reduce health care use
Jane P Hall · Kees C van Gool
Health care variation: time to act
Why are knee replacement rates in Australia over four times higher than they are in Israel? Or the rate for caesarean sections nearly twice as high as in Finland?
Heather A Buchan · Anne Duggan · Jenny Hargreaves · Ian A Scott · Luke Slawomirski