Panning for gold: An evidence-based tool for assessment of performance indicators in primary health care

Painting by numbers: A guide for systematically developing indicators of performance at any level of health care

“…Judgements made on the basis of information from technically flawed indicators may be unreliable. Inappropriate use brings no guarantee of better health care provision but may generate controversy and misunderstanding, and perverse application of performance incentives and rewards [4].…”

“…The SID Method can be applied by health care workers, providers, or policy makers in a 'paint by numbers' manner, to create robust and meaningful indicators. The SID Method has been used to develop indicators in the New Zealand primary health care context [4,5]. It is applicable to other settings and health systems around the world.…”

“…Previous work in New Zealand by this team resulted in the development of the Sieve Indicator Appraisal Tool (the Sieve) to critique, and provide recommendations on, a set of national indicators for Primary Health Organisations [4]. The Sieve weighs an indicator against 30 criteria grouped within six parameters to assess an indicator's capability and fitness for purpose.…”

“…The Sieve weighs an indicator against 30 criteria grouped within six parameters to assess an indicator's capability and fitness for purpose. The criteria and parameters chosen for inclusion in the Sieve were guided by the literature and empirical work [4]. The development of the Sieve and other aspects of this work have been published previously [6].…”

Primary health‐care network monitoring: a hierarchical resource allocation modeling approach

“…In order to avoid unmanageable proliferation of indicators, caused by attempting to cover every important aspect of a PHCN (Perera et al, 2007), the indicators in our model are hierarchically organized. In this way they provide both simple top-level and detailed low-level views on the PHCN.…”