Wieringa, SietseDreesens, DunjaForland, FrodeHulshof, CarelLukersmith, SueMacbeth, FergusShaw, Bethvan Vliet, ArlèneZuiderent-Jerak, Teun2019-10-072019-10-072515-4478http://hdl.handle.net/1885/173550The development, monitoring, and reporting of indicator measures that describe standard of care provide the gold standard for assessing quality of care and patient outcomes. Although indicator measures have been reported, little evidence of their use in measuring and benchmarking performance is available. A standard set, defining numerator, denominator, and risk adjustments, will enable global benchmarking of quality of care.SW received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7‐PEOPLE‐2013‐COFUND), Grant/ Award Number: 609020. TZJ received funding from a fellowship in the Future Research Leaders program of Linköping University. The OA fee was paid for by the Guidelines International Network.application/pdfen-AU© Article author(s) (or their employer(s) unless otherwise stated in the text of the article) 2018. All rights reserved. No commercial use is permitted unless otherwise expressly granted.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/201810.1136/bmjebm-2017-1108442019-04-21Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license