European State of the Art Symposium
On 9-10 January 2008 the European Society for Quality in Healthcare; Office for Quality Indi-cators in Århus held a European state of the art symposium on “Indicators for Patient Safety and Quality”. The symposium took place at the exclusive H.C. Andersen Hotel in the old city centre of Odense, Denmark, very near to the birth place of the Danish fairy tale writer H.C. Andersen.
In the last few years clinical indicators have moved from tools for monitoring progress in internal improvement activities to play a major part in the external evaluation of professional institutions and national health care systems within patient safety and quality improvement. Eleven scientific presentations on issues that seem to be discussed presently in Europe were given by fifteen speakers, the presentations covered issues as:
- The evidence for the value of indicator monitoring – apart from control and command accountability.
- Can we make patient safety activities accountable by indicator monitoring?
- What is the need for different indicator systems on the European scene (OECD, WHO, PATH, SIMPatIE, Scandinavian, Eastern European and the various national indicators).
The programme from the symposium is available here:
Programme
Altogether 80 people from all over Europe participated. The list of the participants and speakers is available here:
Participants
The presentations from the symposium are available here:
1. Effect of indicator monitoring
• Ingeman
• Mainz
2. Outcome measures – state of the art:
• Rutberg and Köster
• Christensen, Nørgaard and Engebjerg
3. Patient Safety Indicators
• Kristensen
• Drösler
4. International indicators
• De Koning
• Klazinga
• Bourek
• Wotjowicz and Dudzik-Urbaniak
• Guisset
• Mainz
5. Indicators go public
• Bartels
It was two most inspiring, dynamic and interesting days, where information, exchange of knowledge and experience and networking was in focus. Please se photos from the symposium below.
THE ESQH OFFICE FOR QUALITY INDICATORS
Paul Bartels and Jan Mainz
Maybritt Pedersen and Solvejg Kristensen
Olof Palmes Allé 15 • 8200 Aarhus N • Denmark
Email: esqh@rm.dk
