hospitalsThe of this paper is to examine quality improvement (QI) initiatives in acute care hospitals, the factors associated with success, and the impacts on patient care and safety.Design/methodology/approach An extensive online survey was completed by senior managers responsible for QI. The ...
Facilities for this population must be defined as ‘hospitals’ or units within hospitals. Interventions: quality improvement initiatives, according to the Ovretveit definition—“better patient experience and outcomes achieved through changing provider behaviour and organisation through using a systematic ...
Our results are also relevant for the assessment of policies, other than those affecting competition amongst hospitals, which aim at improving quality, for example via guidelines, since they suggest that there will be beneficial spillovers as quality improvement in one provider will lead to quality ...
Governmental Hospitals in Palestine operate at the limits of their design capacity. On average, the Governmental Hospital in Hebron " Alia Hospital " is over-occupied. This state of work to cope with high demand leaves behind adaptive responses and practices that negatively affect the quality of ...
BackgroundMost quality improvement (QI) activities in developing countries, established with funds from external donors, are focused on specific diseases or outreach programs, such as family planning or child survival. District hospitals in developing countries serve as the primary entry point for patien...
Conclusions and Relevance Among patients with HFrEF in hospitals randomized to a hospital and postdischarge quality improvement intervention vs usual care, there was no significant difference in time to first heart failure rehospitalization or death, or in change in a composite heart failure quality-of...
Does Hospital Investment in Quality Improvement Improve Quality? Evidence from a Panel Study of Florida HospitalsHospital InvestmentQualityPanel DataFor over a decade, and with renewed intensity since the passage of the Affordable Care Act, there has been heightened awareness and concern about the ...
Participation in the American Heart Association's Get With The Guidelines quality improvement program significantly improves hospitals' adherence to evidence-based therapies and reduces gender- and age-related disparities in the care of coronary artery d
A key characteristic of healthcare systems that deliver high quality and cost performance in a sustainable way is a systematic approach to capacity and capability building for quality improvement. The aim of this research was to explore the factors that lead to successful implementation of a program...
Conclusions and Relevance Hospitals acquired by private equity were associated with larger increases in net income, charges, charge to cost ratios, and case mix index as well as with improvement in some quality measures after acquisition relative to nonacquired controls. Heterogeneity in some findings...