| Autor institucional : | OCDE - UE |
| Autor/Autores: | OCDE - UE |
| Fecha de publicación: | Junio de 2013 |
| Alcance geográfico: | Regional |
| Publicado en: | Francia |
| Descargar: | Descargar PDF |
| Resumen: | This report is about how countries are addressing this challenge by developing measures to ensure a high quality of long-term care – care that is safe, effective, and centred around the needs and abilities of the care recipients themselves. In most respects, endeavours to improve long-term care quality lag behind comparable efforts in the health care sector, but there are some excellent initiatives in some countries which combine measurement of clinical effectiveness with patientcentred approaches to improve the quality of life of people in need of care. Such new initiatives to stimulate quality improvement have gained ground alongside traditional regulatory approaches. There are interesting examples of public reporting of quality performance of care-providers which enable older people and their families to make informed choices, and quality grading systems which encourage providers to compete on care outcomes. |
