Hospital quality indicators: a systematic review.
Juliana Zeni BreyerJuliana GiacomazziRegina KuhmmerKarine Margarites LimaLuciano Serpa HammesRodrigo Antonini RibeiroNatalia Luiza KopsMaicon FalavignaEliana Marcia WendlandPublished in: International journal of health care quality assurance (2019)
To the authors' knowledge, this is the first systematic review to identify and describe hospital quality indicators after a comprehensive search in MEDLINE/PubMed, etc., and the grey literature, aiming to identify as many indicators as possible. Few studies evaluate the indicators, and most are found only in the grey literature, and have been published mostly by government agencies. Documents published in scientific journals usually refer to a specific indicator or to constructing an indicator. However, indicators most commonly found are not supported by reliability or validity studies.