Focuses on the results of a benchmarking study conducted by the Institute for Healthcare Quality Incorporated, on the quality of health care available in the United States. Areas of investigation; Categories of evaluation; States which have high quality of health care; Implications of the results....
nursing homes vs. assisted living when you are evaluating the different types of communities that offer senior care in a residential setting, match the community type with your or your loved one's health care needs to find the best fit. nursing homes have the highest level of medical care, ...
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...
BEIJING, May 21 (Xinhua) -- Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has seen remarkable growth across key economic indicators since last year, with its growth rates of GDP, investment, consumption, import and export, fiscal revenue and resident income levels all ranking among the top ...
Acute care in Italy is also excellent, according to the State of Health in the EU Report. Italy has one of the lowest death rates from cardiovascular diseases in the EU, ranking 4th for men and 5th for women, thanks to timely hospital transportation and effective medical interventions. Cancer...
At the subnational level, Beijing has established four government industry investment funds, each exceeding 10 billion yuan (1.42 billion dollars), focusing on AI, healthcare, robotics, and information technology. These funds are primarily aimed at enhancing innovation and entrepreneurship and supporting...
The purpose of the present study was to assess the quality of information available on YouTube videos pertaining to thyroid cancer. A search of YouTube (ht
Health state utility values (HSUVs) are an essential input parameter to cost-utility analysis (CUA). Systematic literature reviews (SLRs) provide summarized information for selecting utility values from an increasing number of primary studies eliciting HSUVs. Quality appraisal (QA) of such SLRs is ...
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The Institute of Medicine has been instrumental in providing guidance for identifying the contributors to the quality issues within the health care system. Their report, entitled “Crossing the Quality Chasm: A new health system for the twenty-first century” acknowledges that there exists a huge ga...