since the beginning of 2014 in Finland, patients have had the freedom to choose which health centre or hospital district he goes to get treatment. At the same time, information care quality of care has not been available to the patient.
it is Not sufficient that the patient gets rapid treatment, if treatment is not good and of high quality. It is important to know that the treatment location has accumulated enough expertise and the quality is good, said the project leader and chief Bunting little jämsä THL.
Alignment requires a different management unit from it, that the professionals recorded in the future patient information and care data systematically and in the same form in every place, otherwise the quality of the comparison does not work. This anomaly disease-specific national quality registry, you strive to answer.
– in Practice, the situation is now the same, if you compare apples to bananas. First is to find a common understanding of what information is collected. For example, the patient in addition to the information required for harmonised data on the disease and its severity, of the treatments or measures. These data are then compared, describes the little jämsä.
Health and welfare institute (THL) has prepared a national health quality registers, initially to the seven disease groups in the experiment. These include diabetes, prostate cancer, HIV, ischemic heart disease, psychosis, arthritis and back surgery.
the THL provided that the quality of the registers will be built a permanent “tracking template”. At first older people’s diseases and later also for other diseases of the eye.
one of The first comparisons possibly as early as next year
The first preliminary treatment of comparative figures and estimates are the permit seven launch of a pilot project as early as next year.
– once you get a sufficiently comprehensive, reliable, and revised quality information so that phase information but also the patient, permission, little jämsä.
the patient data already collected in hospitals and nursing circles of care evaluation of quality, but locally. Health care quality differences is not available for comprehensive and comparable data even for experts.
the quality of the registry data is intended to assemble existing patient information system and Database data. The project director assures that the extra or duplicate posting professionals should not. The patient does not need to do anything to the registry with respect.
in Sweden, the comparison data for a hundred disease treatment
in Other nordic countries, health care quality registers have been in use for years. For example, in Sweden, the first register has been established already in the 70s. Now a national country-wide quality of care registers is there already a hundred. With their help, the quality of care is improved.
follow-up also increases health care security.
– Information that the quality of monitoring and evaluation lead for quality improvement. It stings to hone and improve suoristuksia, insurance project director.
in a Recent report, the INSTITUTE argues that the national quality registers to be made a permanent practice. Initially, the quality of care can be measured at the larger people’s diseases, where the medical and the financial load is heavy.
These can be, for example, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases mental health disorders or cancers, the lists little jämsä.
Chief Bunting little jämsä THL sees quality registries to increase patient one specially created for the task.Rami Moilanen / Yle Preparation tailwind
It still requires the social and health ministry (STM) regulation and money.
the THL has submitted that the quality of the work for the establishment of a separate quality registry center, which THL drag. The national quality registry centre in the first four years of the financing needs would be around 18 million. The budget includes the required information technology investments.
the STM according to the quality of the registers required to set up regulation is a work in progress and it is possible to give the 2020 period.
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