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The Measures Library provides an overview and detailed technical specifications of health care quality and safety measures to support improvement of the sector. It is for technical and non-technical users of health care quality and safety measures.
Measures are essential tools for understanding and improving health care systems.
They help us:
Measure development is an intensive task, involving the synthesis of clinical guidelines and expert advice regarding care and service delivery best practices. Analytic best practices are used in measure development to ensure measures are based on quality data, to derive transparent and reproducible outputs that are clinically meaningful.
The Measures Library brings together high-quality, robust measures developed across the health sector. Analysts and decision-makers can apply these measures to their data, to understand and improve service and care quality.
It is a one stop shop for health quality and safety measures used in the New Zealand health system. It allows the Commission to work with other health sector agencies to contribute measures which are of relevance to their work.
If you would like to contact the Measures Library team to request improvements or contribute measures, please email measureslibrary@hqsc.govt.nz.
You can also use the contact form on the Measures Library website.
