title: How does the quality of care compare in five countries?
abstract: International data on quality of medical care allow countries to compare their performance to that of other countries. The Commonwealth Fund International Working Group on Quality Indicators collected data on twenty-one indicators that reflect medical care in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, England, and the United States. The indicators include five-year cancer relative survival rates, thirty-day case-fatality rates after acute myocardial infarction and stroke, breast cancer screening rates, and asthma mortality rates. No country scores consistently the best or worst overall. Each country has at least one area of care where it could learn from international experiences and one area where its experiences could teach others.
authors.affiliation: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
authors.forename: Peter S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Hussey
authors.forename: Gerard F
authors.initials: GF
authors.lastname: Anderson
authors.forename: Robin
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Osborn
authors.forename: Colin
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Feek
authors.forename: Vivienne
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: McLaughlin
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Millar
authors.forename: Arnold
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Epstein
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D019049:Developed Countries; D006302:Health Services Research; D006801:Humans; D038622:Internationality; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data* / Q000639:trends; D015996:Survival Rate