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The transition to a regulated healthcare market in the Netherlands emphasizes the need for transparent, outcome-based quality indicators to measure and improve cardiac care.
This review highlights the increasing importance of transparent quality measurement in Dutch cardiac care.
Highlights need for outcome-based indicators in Dutch cardiac care; leaves open effects on quality and costs.
The assessment of quality of care is becoming increasingly important in healthcare, both globally and in the Netherlands. The Dutch Minister of Health declared 2015 to be the year of transparency, thereby aiming to improve quality of care by transparent reporting of outcome data. With the increasing importance of transparency, knowledge on quality measurement will be essential for a cardiologist in daily clinical care. To that end, this paper provides a comprehensive overview of the Dutch healthcare structure, quality indicators and the current and future assessment of quality of cardiac care in the Netherlands.
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Eindhoven et al. (2015) conducted a review in Cardiac care quality. The transition to a regulated healthcare market in the Netherlands emphasizes the need for transparent, outcome-based quality indicators to measure and improve cardiac care.
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