Quality of Public Health Information: Lessons From the Field

Quality of Public Health Information: Lessons From the Field

4/3/98

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Quality of Public Health Information: .Lessons From the Field

Basic Quality Issues

No Consensus About Quality

Communicable Disease Reporting Systems

Primary Syphilis

State Infrastructure .Reporting System

Addressing the Quality Issue

Work Continues on Improving Infrastructure Reporting

Variable Needs for “Quality”

Public Health Practice Guidelines

Task Force on Community Preventive Services

What Is the Science Base?

“Best Practices”

Determining “Best Practice”

Quality Information Is Not Always Used

Tradeoffs of Quality and Timeliness

Determine Uses FIRST

What Gets Measured, .Gets Done

No consensus about quality information

Author: Ron Bialek

Email: nichsr@nlm.nih.gov

Home Page: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nichsr/nyam/nyam.html

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