A continuous quality improvement project British Journal of Healthcare Management Vol 20, No 3Jasperine Ho KayeeQuinnie LeeKachi LamKwokkey LamSiukee LeungChiwai ManKamshing TangChiyuen Lo
The International Quality Indicator Project is the largest international data set of quality indicators. It provides participants with quarterly feedback of comparative indicator data and support for effective use of these data within the participants' own quality improvement programmes. The UK QIP now ...
A 5-day course on Implementation and Improvement science for healthcare professionals working in burn care and prevention in low resource environments, had already been delivered to senior staff. The idea of developing a similar programme specifically for nurses, based on problem solving in the ‘...
Last but not least, defining a minimal, clinically meaningful improvement, as well as worsening, during construct validation is critical to providing practicing physicians, medical directors and health policy makers with a useful HRQL tool. Competing interests Don Robinson, Jr. and Jason Clark were ...
Healthcare and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Evanston, Illinois, United States Email: Kimberly Webster - k-webster@northwestern.edu; David Cella* - d-cella@northwestern.edu; Kathleen Yost - kyost@enh.org * Corresponding author Published: 16 December 2003 Health and Quality ...
Regional Healthcare System, which is participating in the project. "We have to use technology in the quality improvement process," he said. "A lot of the measurements are tied to clinical results, and IT will help us with that." The project also will heighten the need to automate the ...
Several studies suggest that health status per se, rather than degree of improvement in health status due to med- ical care, also influences satisfaction ratings; there is some evidence that healthier patients tend to report greater sat- isfaction with health care [11,14,17]. Statistical adjust...
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2007, 5:2 http://www.hqlo.com/content/5/1/2 Background Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) measurement has emerged as an important health outcome in clinical trials, clinical practice improvement strategies, and healthcare services research and evaluation ...
However, on two testing schemes a portion of the results were found to be borderline and provided important procedural improvement feedback for the lab. Conclusions: Participation in the IBBL PT program proved to be an invaluable experience for the PPBC. The detailed report and analysis on all ...
Process Improvement Production Capacity Analysis (Run & Rate) Quality Investigation (root cause investigation of defective product) Root Cause Analysis Corrective Action Follow up Process Failure Mode Effects Analysis (PFMEA) Medical Device File Validation ...