Can Fam Physician. 1989 Mar;35:573-80.
With the increasing expenditure on health-care programs for seniors, there is an urgent need to evaluate such programs. The Measurement Iterative Loop is a tool that can provide both health administrators and health researchers with a method of evaluation of existing programs and identification of gaps in knowledge, and forms a rational basis for health-care policy decisions. In this article, the Loop is applied to one common problem of the elderly: dementia.
随着老年人医疗保健计划支出的增加,迫切需要对这些计划进行评估。测量迭代循环是一种工具,可以为卫生行政人员和卫生研究人员提供一种评估现有计划和发现知识差距的方法,并为医疗保健政策决策提供合理依据。本文将该循环应用于老年人的一个常见问题:痴呆症。