Representation System for Quality Indicators by Ontology
Osamu Takaki, Izumi Takeuti, Koichi TAKAHASHI, Noriaki Izumi, Koichiro Murata, Koiti Hasi · InTech eBooks · 2012
We have not yet established a proper methodology to accurately evaluate the quality of medical services, although such a method is necessary for fair comparison between hospitals and/or improvement in the quality of medical services. The reason is that such a methodology needs a reasonable way to transform qualitative properties of medical services such as doctors' skill or patient satisfaction into quantitative properties that are measurable by data existing in medical databases, but, it has not yet been researched sufficiently. In general, it is not easy to fairly evaluate abstract things such as intelligence and performances by measuring quantitative aspects of them although we often have opportunities to evaluate such things. Moreover, even though we have quantitative properties denoting some useful properties, we need a proper method to accurately represent such quantitative properties in order to make users understand the definitions of the properties correctly.