Mircha Poldrugovac
National Institute of Public Health of Slovenia
Mircha Poldrugovac
Mircha Poldrugovac works as a public health specialist at the Centre for Health Care of the National Institute of Public Health in Slovenia. Mircha recently completed his PhD at the University of Amsterdam on the topic of performance indicators in long-term care. In the past he worked at the Ministry of Health of Slovenia, where he co-edited the first manual on healthcare quality indicators monitored in Slovenia. He was one of the coordinators of the first Health System Performance Assessment report in Slovenia. He currently chairs the Health Care Quality and Outcome Indicators Working Party at the OECD.
FURTHER INFORMATION
| Countries | Slovenia; |
|---|---|
| Topics | Outcome measurement in LTC; Person-centered care; Quality of care; Quality regulation and accreditation for LTC services; |
| Methods | Analysis of administrative data; Document analysis; Mixed methods; Observational studies; Qualitative studies; Quantitative data analysis; Scoping reviews; Systematic Review; Thematic analysis; |
| Role | Research; |
| Interest Groups | Quality improvement in Long-Term Care; |
| ORC.ID | 0000-0001-9872-7950 |
| Research interests | Performance Monitoring in health and long-term care Health System Performance Assessment |
| Key publications | Poldrugovac M, Wammes JD, Bos VL, Barbazza E, Ivanković D, Merten H, MacNeil Vroomen JL, Klazinga NS, Kringos DS. Performance indicators on long-term care for older people in 43 high-and middle-income countries: literature review, web search and expert consultation. BMC Health Services Research. 2025 Mar 28;25(1):460. Poldrugovac M, Amuah JE, Wei-Randall H, Sidhom P, Morris K, Allin S, Klazinga N, Kringos D. Public Reporting of performance indicators in long-term care in Canada: does it make a difference?. Canadian Journal on Aging/La Revue canadienne du vieillissement. 2022 Dec;41(4):565-76. Poldrugovac M, Pot AM, Klazinga N, Kringos D. How are regulatory oversight organisations using long-term care performance indicators: a qualitative descriptive study in 10 high-income countries. BMJ open. 2023 Feb 1;13(2):e067495. Poldrugovac M, Barsanti S, Pardini E, Klazinga NS, Kringos DS. Relation between pre-existing quality management measures and prevention and containment of COVID-19 outbreaks in 159 nursing homes in Tuscany: a mixed methods study. BMJ Open Quality. 2024 Apr 1;13(2):e002560. Albreht T, Polin K, Kuhar M, Poldrugovac M, Vracko P. Slovenia: Health System Review. Health systems in transition. 2021 Oct 1;23(1):1-83. Ivanković D, Barbazza E, Bos V, Brito Fernandes Ó, Jamieson Gilmore K, Jansen T, Kara P, Larrain N, Lu S, Meza-Torres B, Mulyanto J et al. Features constituting actionable COVID-19 dashboards: descriptive assessment and expert appraisal of 158 public web-based COVID-19 dashboards. Journal of medical Internet research. 2021 Feb 24;23(2):e25682. |