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1This idea is also recommended to be included in the National Account. For example, Eurostat (Citation4) has defined the output in health care: “Health output is the quantity of care received by patients, adjusted to allow for the qualities of service provided, for each type of health care. The quantities should be weighted together using data on the costs or prices of the health care provided. The quantity of health care received by patients should be measured in terms of complete treatments.”
2In breast cancer the main challenges were related to the poor reliability of data on care given in hospital outpatient departments (radiation, chemotherapy and expensive drugs) as well as problems related to measure outcome (renewal of cancer) whereas in the case of schizophrenia, performance measurement suffers from a lack of data on care given outside the inpatient wards of hospitals (primary outpatient care). In addition, we have excluded analysis considering revascular procedures from this volume since the topic is discussed in the AMI article. However, even for these health problems, performance indicators have been produced and articles published.