ECHI indicators
ECHI indicators
The European Core Health Indicators ECHI is the result of long-term cooperation between EU countries and the European Commission. Three ECHI projects funded under the EU Health Programmes established the first lists of ECHI indicators, aiming to provide comparable health information to monitor health at EU level.
Health systems performance
- Vaccination coverage in children
- Influenza vaccination rate in elderly
- Breast cancer screening
- Cervical cancer screening
- Colon cancer screening
- Timing of first antenatal visits among pregnant women
- Patient mobility
- Insurance coverage
- Expenditures on health care
- Survival rates cancer
- 30-day in-hospital case-fatality AMI and stroke
- Equity of access to health care services
- Waiting times for elective surgeries
- Surgical wound infections
- Cancer treatment delay
- Diabetes control
Health care resources
- Hospital beds
- Practising nurses
- Practising physicians
- Mobility of professionals
- Medical technologies: MRI units and CT scans
- Hospital in-patient discharges, limited diagnoses
- Hospital day-cases, limited diagnoses
- Hospital day-cases as percentage of total patient population
- Average length of stay (ALOS), limited diagnoses
- General practitioner (GP) utilisation
- Selected outpatient visits
- Selected surgeries
- Medicine use, selected groups