Developing robust composite measures of healthcare quality – Ranking intervals and dominance relations for Scottish Health Boards

Laura Schang, Yrjänä Hynninen, Alec Morton and Ahti Salo

Social Science & Medicine, 2016, vol. 162, issue C, 59-67

Abstract: Although composite indicators are widely used to inform health system performance comparisons, such measures typically embed contentious assumptions, for instance about the weights assigned to constituent indicators. Moreover, although many comparative measures are constructed as ratios, the choice of denominator is not always straightforward. The conventional approach is to determine a single set of weights and to choose a single denominator, even though this involves considerable methodological difficulties.

Keywords: Performance comparison; Composite indicator; Weight; Denominator; Ranking interval; Dominance relation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.06.026

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