Colloquia
In addition to the regular seminar series there is a series of Colloquia delivered by members of the School.
- 8 October 2010; Nokuthaba Sibanda: "How Good is Your GP?"
The organiser for the series is Rob.Goldblatt@msor.vuw.ac.nz.
Abstracts and details of previous colloquia are here.
How Good is Your GP?
Nokuthaba Sibanda (4pm Friday October 2010, Easterfield LT206)
The talk focuses on how methods for measuring and comparing performance among healthcare providers have evolved over the last few decades.
Quality control techniques that were designed to monitor product quality in manufacturing have been adapted for: 1) continuous monitoring of patient care outcomes to enable timely detection of deterioration in performance, and 2) comparing hospitals to identify those that give the best and worst quality of care. I will discuss the adjustments required to make quality control methods suitable for use with healthcare data. I will also review the latest developments in this area.