Measuring the quality of healthcare: The connection between structure, process, and outcomes of care, using the example of myocardial infarction treatment in Germany. Disease Management Health Outcomes, 15, 225-238.Wubker A. Measuring the quality of healthcare, The connection between structure, ...
They advocate the use of state-of-the-art measures even if they are costly and mention that quality of care should be assessed at several levels, including care provided by individual health care professionals and health plans. The selection of data sources and congruity of assessment measures ...
Measuring the quality of health care is becoming increasingly important. Quality is often conceptualized as 3 dimensions of care: structures, processes, and outcomes. Unfortunately, there is little consensus about what should be measured--and how it should be measured--when it comes to measuring pr...
(2008). Accounting Principles and Measuring Health Care Quality. ... Pronovost,J Peter - 《Jama the Journal of the American Medical Association》 被引量: 44发表: 2008年 Measuring Quality of Decision-Making for Advance Care Planning and Surgery Background: It is important to engage patients and...
'Pay for performance' is a strategy to improve the quality of healthcare by rewarding physicians who deliver higher-quality service. Pay for performance appears to be a simple and logical solution to address both healthcare quality and cost problems. However, pay for performance in action is oft...
(Statistics South Africa) for the country to establish a baseline for future planning of primary health care, for decision-making based on scientif i c evidence.Keywords: Africa; Brazil; primary health care; evaluation; PCAT.Measuring the quality of primary care in nat i onal health surveys: ...
How can the challenges of quality measurement, assurance, and improvement be met at the national, state, and community levels? Can we sustain high levels of quality of care in an evolving health sector that wants to control costs and needs to extend access to millions of people? Can we find...
IJCM_332A: Factors affecting quality of life among antenatal women seeking health care in tertiary care hospitals of Mangaluru and our study aims at providing such understanding.#A hospital based Cross-sectional study of the pregnant women seeking antenatal health care in Government... P Mithra,...
Quality of healthcareRheumatologists and other caregivers can learn from patients' experiences with the quality of care that can be measured with the CQ-index Rheumatoid Arthritis (CQ-index RA) survey. Patients with RA ( n =590) received this survey were they rated their actual experiences and...
:This paper compares two indices of horizontal inequity in the delivery of health care, the index proposed by Wagstaff, van Doorslaer, and Paci (1991), and another index derived in this paper. As well as discussing the computational aspects of these two indices, the paper also addresses the ...