patient care quality improvement
Development of a framework with tools to support the selection and implementation of patient-reported outcome measures
... for Quality of Life (ISOQOL) has recommended minimum standards for the measurement properties of PROMs used in patient-centered outcomes research ...integrating patient- reported outcomes in ...
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Investigating organizational quality improvement systems, patient empowerment, organizational culture, professional involvement and the quality of care in European hospitals: the 'Deepening our Understanding of Quality Improvement in Europe (DUQuE)' project
... and patient safety will be initially assessed in relation to discrete patient charac- ...and patient safety will be retrieved through audit of patient records, which is a common approach in ...
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The Accountable Care Organization results: Population health management and quality improvement programs associated with increased quality of care and decreased utilization and cost of care
... high quality patient experience and lower health care ...for improvement: the Diabetes Composite; Adult Weight Screening; and Depression ...the quality-related measures identified by ...
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Current concept review: quality and process improvement in orthopedics
... health care stakeholders are increasingly scrutinizing musculoskeletal care to optimize quality and cost ...on quality and process ...health care delivery. These quality and ...
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Impact of electronic medical record on physician practice in office settings: a systematic review
... primary care and general practice settings, our findings showed less improvement in the areas of disease management [6], patient record quality [7,8] and decision support tools [9], but ...
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A multifaceted intervention to improve the quality of care for patients undergoing total joint arthroplasty
... of patient emotional readiness and comor- ...Lean improvement events that focused on specific segments of the pathway and facilitated team building and monitoring for sustained ...
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Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Organizations in Anesthesiology
... improving care that coincided with increasing public and government interest in quantifying the performance of ...Anesthesia Quality Institute (AQI), “to be the primary source of information for ...
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Enabling public, patient and practitioner involvement in co designing frailty pathways in the acute care setting
... targeted quality improvement initiatives: Collaboration along the integrated care continuum; continence care; improved mobility; access to food and hydration and improved patient ...
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Patient Safety in the Pediatric Emergency Care Setting
... evidence-based care guidelines and therapies by health care profes- sionals through regulatory mechanisms (such as the pay-for-performance initiative of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and ...
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Duration and determinants of hospice-based specialist palliative care: A national retrospective cohort study
... palliative care can improve symptom control and quality of life, increase satisfaction with care, and provide better outcomes for ...to, improvement in certain symptoms, improved ...
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Using Always Events to derive patient-centred quality improvement priorities in a specialist primary care service providing care to a homeless population
... on patient engagement, it is not possible to determine whether the lack of independence from the service may have impacted on what people were willing to ...
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Developing patient centred care: an ethnographic study of patient perceptions and influence on quality improvement
... focusing care on patient needs and preferences, with ‘patient-centeredness’ recognised as a domain of quality in its own right ...include patient voices in measures of healthcare ...
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The emotional labour of quality improvement work in end of life care: a qualitative study of Patient and Family Centred Care (PFCC) in England
... health care organisations through quality improvement work is gaining considerable attention in the UK NHS and in other countries (Eccles et ...support quality improvement activities ...
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How to improve the quality of care for women with postpartum haemorrhage at Onandjokwe Hospital, Namibia: quality improvement study
... The audit team and departmental staff identified that there was a lack of training of the professional staff in the labour ward to manage obstetric emergencies and that the staff did not have access to an evidence-based ...
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Improving Early Sepsis Identification on Inpatient Units
... acute care setting who has the time and expertise to execute quality improvement projects from start to ...lead quality improvement processes are implementing interventions often ...
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Quality improvement in practice: improving diabetes care and patient outcomes in Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services
... DAHS has a long history of conducting CQI [28]. Dur- ing the “ DAHS diabetes study ” staff reported concern over the size of the “ off the shelf ” audit tools that were briefly used at DAHS and their labour intensiveness ...
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A daughter’s frustration with the dearth of patient- and family-centered care
... health care payment on quality metrics, however, is a blunt instrument to drive health care toward patient- and family-centered ...the quality improvement process, to identify ...
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Economic Implications of Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Collaborative Quality Improvement
... Control variables in the cost models include patient character- istics (birth weight, gender and race). In addition, other factors known to affect treatment costs such as the presence of assisted ventilation and ...
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Quality Improvement on the Long-term Care Ventilator Unit: Interventions to Increase Patient Safety and Prevent Patient Harm
... This control chart continues to show that the mean number of complications per patient per day was higher for the second phase of the project than the first. Unfortunately, there weren’t enough weeks ...
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Revisiting the Quality Chasm
... This domain focuses on clinical out- comes. All 30 clinical service lines in the hospital will pursue a transformative clinically important goal/outcome for a speci fi c disease within their purview. Speci fi c examples ...
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