Proximity of hospitals and word-of-mouth reputation often matter more to patients than published quality indicators.
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The new "clinical quality indicators" have been introduced at all England's ambulance trusts by the Department of Health.
Ake Strandberg, the hospital's chief executive, says it offers cheaper care than its competitors, and is the only hospital in Sweden to publish detailed quality indicators.
John Mezias and Bill Starbuck published several articles in which they showed how people do not even know basic facts about their own companies, such as the sales of their own business unit, error rates, or quality indicators.
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Other specialities will have to follow cardiothoracic surgery and fertility treatment in coming up with quality indicators: survival rates for individual heart surgeons have recently begun to be published and the success rates of IVF clinics are released.
"Quality and efficacy indicators are sorely lacking" in the materials, the report said.
The adoption of universal indicators on quality physical education and sport and an economic analysis about the valuable contributions that physical activity and sport make to social and economic development will be considered by this Commission.
In short, image and reputation are not always reliable indicators of credit quality.
In this regard, biodiversity needs to feature in indicators on water quality.
Many foundations like to use quality-of-life indicators to guide their philanthropy.
Data retrieved from HICO have been validated with data collected from samples collected on the ground and used to develop algorithms to map indicators of water quality.
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The over-reliance on self-reported data is also called into question, and the absence of any meaningful indicators for teaching quality, personal development, or the impact of the alumni network.
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The former boss of Coca-Cola's Mexican operation, whose 58th birthday fell on election day, talks of infusing government with total quality management and tracking it with performance indicators.
Included are strong performance indicators such as dispositions (improving asset quality in disposition of non-core assets), modest ground-up development (providing accretive revenue), and strong capitalization (access to debt and equity).
It gathers data on more than 60 indicators (the extent of crime, the quality of police, judicial independence and so on) to create rule-of-law and governance measures for virtually every country in the world.
There are 65 "performance indicators" it has to routinely measure, while 150 "quality standards" govern what is expected across a range of areas from stroke care to treatment for depression.
The research is the first step towards developing indicators that can be used by maternity services to monitor and improve quality of care, said Dr David Richmond, vice president of RCOG.
The UN says that while health indicators in Gaza are comparable to middle and high-income countries, quality needs to be improved.
Again, however, official output figures, based on indicators such as the number of doctors and hospital beds, fail to take account of higher quality, so growth is understated.
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