A prerequisite of QIs to be of added value, is that they are defined using data, for example from KNGF’s clinical registry, that are valid, reliable and able to discriminate between groups of interest. QIs consist of explicitly defined and measurable items referring to the structures, processes or outcomes of care, and have the potential to be used to support quality improvement, accountability and to provide transparency of service delivery in healthcare. QIs are “measurement tools, screens, or flags that are used as guides to monitor, evaluate, and improve the quality of patient care, clinical support services, and organizational functions that affect patient outcomes” (p 524). Presumably, data collected in clinical registries can be used in developing such QIs, ultimately assisting in achieving more transparency of service delivery. Although seemingly promising, there is still limited experience with the development and implementation of QIs based on health outcomes. Within healthcare, the use of health outcomes as quality indicators (QIs) to enable transparency of the service delivery is gaining momentum. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.Ĭompeting interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
In uploading the datafiles (SPSS) we had to compress (.ZIP) the files.įunding: The Quality in Motion program was funded by the association KNGF (Koninklijk Nederlands Genootschap voor Fysiotherapie). We have added all necessary datasets and syntaxes as Supporting Information files. This enables us to comply with the important academic FAIR principles. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.ĭata Availability: We are happy to be able to share the anonymized dataset with PLOS ONE. Received: JanuAccepted: Published: June 3, 2021Ĭopyright: © 2021 Meerhoff et al. PLoS ONE 16(6):Įditor: Alison Rushton, Western University, CANADA (2021) Reliability, validity and discriminability of patient reported outcomes for non-specific low back pain in a nationwide physical therapy registry: A retrospective observational cohort study. Citation: Meerhoff GA, Verburg AC, Schapendonk RM, Cruijsberg J, Nijhuis-van der Sanden MWG, van Dulmen SA, et al.
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