Maartje L. G. de Vos

TL;DR: Effective strategies to implement quality indicators in daily practice in order to improve hospital care do exist, but there is considerable variation in the methods used and the level of change achieved.

TL;DR: A set of 11 quality indicators for intensive care was defined based on literature research, expert opinion, and testing and gives a quick view of the quality of care in individual ICUs.

TL;DR: The authors' results demonstrate that healthcare professionals and managers are familiar with using quality indicators to improve care, and that they have positive attitudes towards the implementation of quality indicators, and it is necessary to lower the barriers related to behavioural factors.

TL;DR: In the context of ICUs participating in a national registry, applying a multifaceted activating performance feedback strategy did not lead to better patient outcomes than only receiving periodical registry reports.

TL;DR: This study will conduct a study to assess the impact of the InFoQI program on patient outcome and organizational process measures of care, and to gain insight into barriers and success factors that affected the program's impact.