Question

Select a desirable characteristic of quality measurement. Define that measurement. Is it a useful measure in determining quality improvement? Is it useful?

Answer 1

Answer :

Quality measurement:

It is a tool is used to measures the quantity of health care, health care out comes and patient perceptions, organizational structures and systems, in order to provide quality of care.

Desirable characteristic of quality measurement:

It includes so many * performance and reliability and validity are the desirable characteristics.

* performance : it is a process of collecting, analyzing, reporting information regarding performance of an individual like that only to measures quality measurement, the tools like reliability and validity performance is a desirable characteristic.

Reliability : it is a psychometrics ,over all consistency of measures.

It is degree to which an assessment tool produce stable consistent results.

Here includes test re test method .

Ex : measurement of people heights and weight extremely reliable.

Yes, it is useful measurement tool.

* by tesing the data or analyzing the data by using this tool we can able to know quality of data and we can know whether it is reliable or not to our study,.

* depending upon that quality measurement we can change data and to meet desirable goals by collecting and analysing new data.

* so that, good characteristic of quality measurement is important.