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A Pilot Ontology for Healthcare Quality Indicators
1School of Informatics, City University London, United Kingdom.
Abstract:
Computerisation of quality indicators for the English National Health Service currently relies primarily on queries and clinical coding, with little use of ontologies. We created a searchable ontology for a diverse set of healthcare quality indicators. We investigated attributes and relationships in a set of 222 quality indicators, categorised by clinical pathway, inclusion and exclusion criteria and US Institute of Medicine purpose. Our pilot ontology could reduce duplication of effort in healthcare quality monitoring.
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