title: The measurement of New Zealand health care.
abstract: The effective and economical measurement of the quality and safety of health and disability services in New Zealand is of signal importance. The Health Quality and Safety Commission has overseen the introduction of an architecture of interacting measures. These include quality and safety indicators, or QSIs, which are whole-system measures; quality and safety markers, or QSMs, which are targeted measures of quality and safety interventions comprising process and outcome measures in sets; and the New Zealand Atlas of Healthcare Variation, which illustrates the differences in the health care received in different regions and by different groups of patients within New Zealand.
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hamblin
authors.forename: Gillian
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bohm
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gerard
authors.forename: Carl
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Shuker
authors.forename: Janice
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wilson
authors.affiliation: Chair of the Board of the Health Quality & Safety Commission; Head of the School of Medicine at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. a.merry@auckland.ac.nz.
authors.forename: Alan F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Merry
mesh_terms: D005102:Health Expenditures; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D007114:Immunization; D009520:New Zealand; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D011320:Primary Health Care; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care; D011787:Quality of Health Care