Mainz Jan, Hjulsager Morten, Og Mette Thorup Eriksen, Burgaard Jytte
National Board of Health and Department of Health Economics, University of Southern Denmark and Aalborg Psychiatric Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark.
J Surg Oncol. 2009 Jun 15;99(8):505-7. doi: 10.1002/jso.21204.
This paper describes the Nordic Indicator Project that aims at describing and analysing the quality of care for important diseases in the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden). The Council of Ministers decided to appoint a working group for quality mapping with the aim of giving Nordic citizens, politicians, health workers and authorities the opportunity to evaluate and compare performance across the Nordic countries. The working group selected 36 prioritised quality indicators, including cancer indicators, for benchmarking between the Nordic countries. Additionally, 40 'potential indicators' have been identified for future developments. This international projects document how difficult it is to do international benchmarking. The experience of the Nordic Council of Ministers Quality Project has shown that even for common indicators as survival and mortality rates for breast cancer, colorectal cancer and lung cancer etc., it is difficult to yield data that are representative to the international nations as a whole. It seems that modern health care systems are not able do document their quality. At national and international level we need to invest in quality measurement systems and in international collaboration.
本文介绍了北欧指标项目，该项目旨在描述和分析北欧国家（丹麦、芬兰、格陵兰、冰岛、挪威和瑞典）对重大疾病的护理质量。部长理事会决定任命一个质量测绘工作组，目的是让北欧公民、政治家、卫生工作者和当局有机会评估和比较北欧国家之间的绩效。该工作组选择了36项优先质量指标，包括癌症指标，用于北欧国家之间的基准测试。此外，还确定了40项“潜在指标”以供未来发展。这个国际项目记录了进行国际基准测试有多困难。北欧部长理事会质量项目的经验表明，即使对于乳腺癌、结直肠癌和肺癌等常见指标的生存率和死亡率等指标，也很难得出代表整个国际社会的数据。现代医疗保健系统似乎无法记录其质量。在国家和国际层面，我们需要投资于质量测量系统和国际合作。
