ArticleBMJ quality & safety2019
The problem with composite indicators.
Article in BMJ quality & safety, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
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Who cites it
45 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Methods to derive composite indicators used for quality and safety measurement and monitoring in healthcare: a scoping review.Frontiers in health services · 2026Pooled it
- Composite quality measures of abdominal surgery at a population level: systematic review.BJS open · 2023Pooled it
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- From fingers to brain: virtual reality-based test capturing fine hand movements predicts cognitive function in older adults.Innovation in aging · 2025Article
- Measuring county-level immigration policy contexts that may influence Latino health in California.SSM - population health · 2025Article
- A Composite Indicator for Primary Diabetes Care: A Cross-Sectional Study in Hungary.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- No Association Between Medicare Advantage Providers' Network Restrictiveness and Star Rating Between 2013 and 2017: An Observational Study.Journal of general internal medicine · 2025Observational
- Impact of pandemic service changes on ethnic inequalities in maternal and perinatal outcomes in England: a population-based study.BMJ open · 2025Article
- The good, the bad and the ugly: What do we really do when we identify the best and the worst organisations?BMJ quality & safety · 2024Article
- From 'strong recommendation' to practice: A pre-test post-test study examining adherence to stroke guidelines for fever, hyperglycaemia, and swallowing (FeSS) management post-stroke.International journal of nursing studies advances · 2024Article
- Surgical Textbook Outcomes in the Era of Neoadjuvant Systemic Treatment for Skin Cancers.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- Textbook Outcome in Colorectal Surgery for Cancer: An Italian Version.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Disentangling the value equation: a step forward in value-based healthcare.European journal of public health · 2024Article
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- Developing quality indicators for cancer hospitals in China: a national modified Delphi process.BMJ open · 2024Review
- Where are the values in evaluating palliative care? Learning from community-based palliative care provision.Palliative care and social practice · 2024Article
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- A composite measure for patient-reported outcomes in orthopedic care: design principles and validity checks.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2023Article
- A small area model to assess temporal trends and sub-national disparities in healthcare quality.Nature communications · 2023Article
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Authors and funding
3 authors.
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Abstract
'The Problem with…' series covers controversial topics related to efforts to improve healthcare quality, including widely recommended but deceptively difficult strategies for improvement and pervasive problems that seem to resist solution.
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Registered trials
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