Measuring up : improving health system performance in OECD countries.

Editor's Preface / Peter Smith --
Overview of Issues and Challenges --
Measuring Health System Performance: Problems and Opportunities in the Era of Assessment and Accountability / C. David Naylor, Karey Iron, Kiren Handa --
Performance Measurement and Improvement in OECD Health Systems: Overview of Issues and Challenges / Jeremy Hurst --
Performance Measurement and Performance Management from the Perspective of Various Actors: A Review of Experiences in Selected Countries --
Improving Value for Money in the United Kingdom National Health Service: Performance Measurement and Improvement in a Centralised System / Clive H. Smee --
Improving Accountability in a Decentralised System: A Swedish Perspective / Nina Rehnqvist --
Providing Performance Information for Consumers: Experience from the United States / Thomas Reilly, Gregg Meyer, Carla Zema, Christine Crofton, David Larson, Charles Darby, Katherine Crosson --
Can a Tulip Become a Rose? The Dutch Route of Guided Self-Regulation Towards a Community-Based Integrated Health Care System / Niek Klazinga, Diana Delnoij, Isik Kulu-Glasgow --
Towards Integrated and Coherent Health Information Systems for Performance Monitoring: The Canadian Experience / Michael Wolfson, Richard Alvarez --
Performance Measurement Activities at the International Level: How can International Comparisons Assist National Policy-Making? --
Opening the Black Box: What Can Be Learned from a Disease-based Approach? / Stephane Jacobzone, Pierre Moise, Lynelle Moon.