Table 6: Reasons for non-appliance of criteria
Criterion
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Reasons for non-appliance of criteria |
| Understandability for physicians and nurses |
This criterion is not important for the assessment of the suitability for public reporting since it is already considered by the criterion understandability and interpretability for patients and the interested public. |
| Data availability |
For the retrospective assessment of quality indicators, this criterion is not relevant. The assessment of this criterion provides important information whether a possibility exists for a new or further development of a process with better data availability. |
| Data collection effort |
For the retrospective assessment of quality indicators, this criterion is not relevant. The assessment of this criterion provides important information whether a possibility exists for a new or further development of a process with lesser collection effort. |
| Barriers to implementation considered |
For the retrospective assessment of quality indicators, this criterion is not relevant. The assessment of this criterion provides important information whether a possibility exists for a new or further development of a process containing lesser or non barriers to implementation. |
| Sensitivity |
In order to measure quality with this criterion, a comparison to the gold standard, which is currently not available, would be necessary. The formalized and uniform Structured Dialogue? in conspicuous and inconspicuous institutions can be used as a surrogate measure for the gold standard in certain dimensions of quality. On the basis of information available in the short term, an assessment of the sensitivity of an indicator would be speculative. Thus it was abandoned.
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| Specificity |
In order to measure quality with this criterion, a comparison to the gold standard, which is currently not available, would be necessary. The formalized and uniform Structured Dialogue in conspicuous and inconspicuous institutions can be used as a surrogate measure for the gold standard in certain dimensions of quality. On the basis of information available in the short term, an assessment of the specificity of an indicator would be speculative. Thus it was abandoned. By means of the criteria clarity of definition and risk adjustment important prerequisites for the specificity are evaluated. |
