2012 Volume 13 Issue 3 Pages 127-133
In order to respond to the rapidly growing social requirements on medical transparency, quality assurance and safety guarantee, Evidence Based Medicine (/Management） must be incorporated to cope with both efficiency and quality of medicine.
The All Japan Hospital Association (AJHA) aims to gain all the aforementioned goals, specifically the standardization of healthcare, by conducting quality assessment based on clinical indicators (2002), DPC data based analysis (MEDI-TARGET) (2006), and International Quality Indicator Project (IQIP) (2006).
In 2010, based on our ongoing operation of clinical outcome evaluation and DPC data analysis, we were granted the Promotion Project on Healthcare Quality Evaluation and Public Reporting by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. 27 hospitals participated in the project.
As a result, we have established (1) a public reporting system of hospital data with disease severity and specialty, and (2) a standardized method for development, introduction and public reporting of patient satisfaction and recommendation of hospitals.
Future agendas are (1) construction of a sustainable mode of operation, (2) reliability assurance of collected data, and (3) training of field staff.
