title: Back to basics on report cards.
abstract: Making Performance Reports Work is a valuable and timely contribution to the literature, particularly at the macro level when First Ministers have made commitments in 2000, 2003 and 2004 to report to their respective populations on a series of indicators, including wait times.
authors.affiliation: Canadian Medical Association.
authors.forename: Albert J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Schumacher
mesh_terms: D002170:Canada; D006761:Hospitals / Q000592:standards*; D033181:Information Dissemination; D019221:Mandatory Reporting; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care / Q000592:standards*