From data to quality: how preventable deaths shape sustainable healthcare (7 min)
The paper focuses on avoidable deaths as the main, internationally comparable indicator of health care quality according to the OECD methodology and on the importance of systematic data quality assessment. The presentation will outline solutions for using this data to create a functional system for assessing the quality of care provided, including examples of successful practices in EU countries.
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Barbara Siekel
Institute for Strategy and Analysis (ISA) at the Office of the Government of the Slovak Republic
Senior Analyst at the Institute for Strategy and Analysis (ISA) at the Office of the Government of the Slovak Republic, where she specialises in improving the monitoring and implementation of health spending reviews, with a focus on the efficient use of public resources to deliver real value for money to the public. She has a long-standing inter…
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