Health system performance assessment studies
The European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies has a number of studies on health system performance assessment, that prevent novel health system performance assessment framework, cover the role of performance measurement, technical instruments and tools, as well as examine international comparisons and benchmarking.
- Papanicolas I, Smith P (2013) Health system performance comparison. An agenda for policy, information and research
- Smith P, Mossialos E, Papanicolas I, Leatherman S. (2009) Performance measurement for health system improvement: experiences, challenges and prospects
- provides a holistic approach to the performance measurement, covering technical and policy aspects;
- draws on experience of health care systems from all over the world; and
- uses non-technical language makes it accessible to a wide readership.
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