Objective To summarize and analysis the working experience of healthcare performance evaluation and reporting experience in local health administration department of Australia, and provide decision support to China on such work as establishing objective, scientific, effective healthcare performance evaluation system, strengthening government’s supervision over health service and improving healthcare system management efficiency.
Methods Searching official networks and databases of Australia, and finding out relevant policy, reports, and documents on healthcare performance evaluation.
Results Typical healthcare performance evaluation systems in Australian are as follos: National Health Performance Framework (NHPF), the National Healthcare Agreement(NHA)and Review of Government Service Provision.
Conclusions These programs in Australian is enlightening to these work in China that performance evaluation should be the prior tool in health system to management and reform, the performance measurement indicators systems should emphasize the quality safety and health fair.We should set up scientific and flexible index inclusion criteria and open report and compare performance information.
Citation: DONG Dandan,SUN Niuyun. Evidence-Based Research on Healthcare Performance Evaluation in Australia and Its Enlightenment to China. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2012, 12(6): 621-625. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.20120101 Copy