measure, and use quality data has evolved rapidly in recent years. Let’s explore what quality healthcare looks like, and how we can (and should) be using this information to make better decisions about our health benefits and care.
When the areas of interest for quality improvement are defined, then quality standards can be set, along with appropriate quality indicators and definition of actions of conformity. The main selection criteria for a quality indicator in the healthcare sector are its usefulness, validity, reliability,...
National levels of personal health-care access and quality can be approximated by measuring mortality rates from causes that should not be fatal in the presence of effective medical care (ie, amenable mortality). Previous analyses of mortality amenable to health care only focused on high-income cou...
wherein applications are being created to deliver service anytime, anywhere, and connected medical devices are helping experts provide their services even from a distance. There are a growing number of healthcare products, such as wearables, and a number of applications associated with them. These ...
This review aims to comprehensively explore the conceptualization, models, tools, barriers, facilitators, and impacts of CQI within the healthcare system worldwide. Specifically, we address the following research questions: (1) How has CQI been defined across various contexts? (2) What are the div...
Quality measures related to well child visits, developmental screenings, immunizations, trauma-related care, BMI measurements, sexually transmitted infections and depression were defined. Retrospective chart reviews were performed on a cohort of children in foster care from a single large pediatric ...
A generation ago, Wennberg described most variation in clinical practice as “unwarranted” (which he defined as variation in the utilization of health care services that cannot be explained by variation in patient illness or patient preferences) [63]. Others coined the term “postcode lottery” to...
Quality improvement and accountability in the Danish health care system government supports a new development in health care focusing upon delivering high-quality health care-high quality is defined by results of value to the ... M Jan,K Solvejg,B Paul - 《Int J Qual Health Care》 被引量: ...
Healthcare Economics Jay understands healthcare economics to be the study of the creation, delivery, and distribution of healthcare services and medical supplies. To better understand his assigned project, he looks deeper into the meaning of quality and health efficiency as defined by the Institute ...
OBJECTIVES: to investigate the influence of social and health factors on low birth weight (LBW) among Polish women. LBW is defined as birth weight less tha... W Borkowski,H Mielniczuk - 《Ginekologia Polska》 被引量: 15发表: 2008年 Diabetes in Pregnancy - Perinatal Aggregated Data (DPAD)...