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Basics of Quality Improvement in Health Care [PDF]

Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 2007
With the rapid expansion of knowledge and technology and a health care system that performs far below acceptable levels for ensuring patient safety and needs, front-line health care professionals must understand the basics of quality improvement methodologies and terminology.
Prathibha, Varkey, M Katherine, Reller, Roger K, Resar   +2 more
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Basic concepts in population health and health care [PDF]

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2001
These definitions are intended to be operational definitions; that is, they are designed to facilitate the development of specific measures to assess their attainment, on the assumption that it does no good to provide a definition if it does not facilitate assessment of change or the extent to which a goal has been reached.
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Healthcare disparities and models for change. [PDF]

, 2004
With Healthy People 2010 making the goal of eliminating health disparities a national priority, policymakers, researchers, medical centers, managed care organizations (MCOs), and advocacy organizations have been called on to move beyond the historic ...
Baquet, Claudia R, Bengen-Seltzer, Barbara, Carter-Pokras, Olivia   +2 more
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Understanding health care billing basics [PDF]

Pharmacy Today, 2017
Abstract Objective To provide pharmacists a basic understanding of health care billing and current opportunities for generating revenue for their patient care services. Data Primary data source is CMS, as Medicare billing processes are viewed by the industry as the U.S. standard for health care billing. Summary The current U.S.
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The role of drug vendors in improving basic health-care services in Nigeria

Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2016
Objective To characterize patent and proprietary medicine vendors and shops in Nigeria and to assess their ability to help improve access to high-quality, primary health-care services. Methods In 2013 and 2014, a census of patent and proprietary medicine
Jenny X. Liu, L. Prach, E. Treleaven, Mara Hansen, J. Anyanti, Temple Jagha, Vince Seaman, O. Ajumobi, Chinwoke Isiguzo   +8 more
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Characteristics of successful changes in health care organizations: an interview study with physicians, registered nurses and assistant nurses

BMC Health Services Research, 2020
Background Health care organizations are constantly changing as a result of technological advancements, ageing populations, changing disease patterns, new discoveries for the treatment of diseases and political reforms and policy initiatives. Changes can
P. Nilsen, Ida Seing, Carin Ericsson, S. Birken, Kristina Schildmeijer   +4 more
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The basic health care system in a crisis situation after the use of weapons of mass destruction

Security and Defence Quarterly, 2019
Weapons of mass destruction pose a threat that all health care institutions should be prepared for. Every health care centre can be an essential part of the joint system of response when a critical situation occurs.
Mateusz Kuczabski
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Impact of basic life-support training on the attitudes of health-care workers toward cardiopulmonary resuscitation and defibrillation

BMC Health Services Research, 2017
BackgroundCardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) increases the probability of survival of a person with cardiac arrest. Repeating training helps staff retain knowledge in CPR and in use of automated external defibrillators (AEDs). Retention of knowledge and
M. Abolfotouh, M. A. Alnasser, Alamin Berhanu, Deema A. Al-Turaif, Abdulrhman I Alfayez   +4 more
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A Novel Approach to Improve Health Literacy in Immigrant Communities

Health Literacy Research and Practice, 2019
Background: Anchorage, Alaska, has a large immigrant and refugee population. In fact, it is one of the most ethnically diverse cities in the United States with almost 100 languages spoken by children in the public school system.
Rhonda M. Johnson, Linda Shepard, Rain Van Den Berg, Chelsea Ward-Waller, Polly Smith, Barry D. Weiss   +5 more
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Assistência à família na atenção básica: facilidades e dificuldades enfrentadas pelos profissionais de saúde = Assisting the family in basic care: facilities and difficulties which health professionals have to face [PDF]

Acta Scientiarum. Health Sciences, 2012
O presente estudo, descritivo de natureza qualitativa, teve por objetivo investigar as facilidades e dificuldades dos profissionais da Atenção Básica para atuar junto às famílias. Os dados foram coletados no período de setembro a dezembro de 2006 junto a
Mislaine Casagrande de Lima Lopes, Sonia Silva Marcon   +1 more
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