and drug standardization from the Health Organization of the League of Nations (set up in 1923) and the International Office of Public Health at Paris (established in 1907), WHO was given a broad mandate under its constitution to promote the attainment of “the highest possible level of health...
After adjustment for patient and physician characteristics and hospital fixed effects, patients treated by international graduates had lower mortality (adjusted mortality 11.2%v11.6%; adjusted odds ratio 0.95, 95% confidence interval 0.93 to 0.96; P<0.001) and slightly higher costs of care per ...
Quality of care of Medicare beneficiaries with acute myocardial infarction: who is included in quality improvement measurement? J Am Geriatr Soc. 2003;51(4):466-75.Rathore SS, Wang Y, Radford MJ, Ordin DL, Krumholz HM. Quality of care of Medicare beneficiaries with acute myocardial infarction:...
In developing countries, lack of trust in the quality of care provided is often cited as a major factor promoting reluctance to seek biomedical help for obstetric emergencies. This article draws on fieldwork among Mayan informants in Sololá, Guatemala, to explore poor perceptions of the quality...
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Quality of care is considered to be of central importance in healthcare, disability services and rehabilitation. People experiencing disability often access a range of health and social care services; for some, these services are integral parts of daily life. Little research...
for mothers and newborns babies, assessment tool" (WHO, 2009) was to provide the Albanian health professionals of maternity hospitals with a tool that may help them assess the quality of perinatal care and identify key areas of pregnancy, childbirth and newborn care that need to be improved. ...
W. Mark Manduke of SEI has written: “When quality is declared to be everyone’s responsibility, no one is truly designated to be responsible for it, and quality issues fade into the chaos of the crisis du jour.” He concluded that “…when management truly commits to a quality culture,...
Care by a specialist increased the odds of receiving action plans. Patients who spoke mostly Spanish were less likely to be given spacers or action plans. Baseline problems with quality and access to care persisted over time. Better systems of care are needed to ensure that high-risk patients...
Quality of care for pregnant women and newborns-the WHO vision. BJOG: an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology. 2015;122(8):1045-9.Tuncalp Ӧ, Were WM, MacLennan C, Oladapo OT, Gulmezoglu AM, Bahl R, et al. Quality of care for pregnant women and newborns--the WHO ...
The lifespan of patients is thus extended. The paper describes selected results of an extensive study monitoring the quality of life of caregivers who care for a child with a rare disease. The study presents evaluation of questionnaires from parents of children with the following diseases: cystic...