The Acute Health Indicators Project

This project was commissioned by the Department of Health and Human Services (Victoria) in October 1998. The Project team consists of the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards-Care Evaluation Program and the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine. The project brief was to identify a concise set of indicators of clinical care that would be suitable for implementation and monitoring in at the state level. It was intended that the indicators reflect on the quality of care within public acute hospitals and be useful determinants of hospital performance. The final report for this project was completed in June 1999. The results of this project were referred to in The Age 14/5/2000.

Acute Health Clinical Indicator Project: A report for the Quality Branch Victorian Government, Department of Human Services, Melbourne, Victoria July 1999.
Volume I: Field Work. Collopy B, Campbell J, Williams J, Portelli R, Ibrahim J, Majoor J, Cicuttini F, McNeil J.
Volume II. Background: Quality and clinical indicators. Ibrahim J, Majoor J, Cicuttini F, McNeil J, Collopy B, Campbell J, Williams J, Portelli R.