title: An approach to an index of hospital performance.
abstract: Two indexes are described, based on measures of administrative effectiveness and patient care effectiveness. The measures used were selected and ranked by a Delphi panel from a list of 30 measures drawn from the literature. Weights were assigned by the panel to 19 selected measures. The resulting indexes did well in a test on data collected from 32 Texas hospitals.
mesh_terms: D000068:Accreditation; D000288:Administrative Personnel / Q000592:standards; D001344:Autopsy; D003258:Consumer Behavior; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D004496:Education, Continuing; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006739:Hospital Administration / Q000592:standards*; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay; D008485:Medical Audit; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital / Q000592:standards; D008722:Methods; D009026:Mortality; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010564:Personnel, Hospital / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative / Q000592:standards; D013781:Texas