Background Owing to the rising costs of health care delivery, the quality of delivered care
has become a central issue across all medical specialties. Consequently, there is increasing
pressure to create standardized frameworks for measuring quality of care. In the field of
cranial neurosurgery, health care administrators have begun applying quality measures that
are easily available but might be inaccurate in measuring the quality of care. Methods We
performed a systematic literature review on quality indicators (QIs) that are presently used in …