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American Journal of Medical Quality, 1998 In recent years, there has been significantly increasing interest in the application of continuous quality improvement (CQI) and total quality management (TQM) in the health care arena. This case analysis is designed to identify and assess the strategies and processes that led to the successful implementation of CQI in the Emergency Care Center at St ...
Klein, Donald +2 more
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Increasing Service Quality at a University: A Continuous Improvement Project [PDF]
, 2021 This paper evaluates a continuous improvement project (CIP) at a Mexican university designed to increase engineering graduate student loyalty. A plan-do-check-act problem-solving methodology was implemented, and a SERVQUAL survey was conducted on 67 ...
Garza Villegas, Juan Baldemar +4 more
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Improving hospital flow ‘Ensiab Project’
BMJ Open Quality, 2021 Emergency department (ED) boarding is an indicator of less efficient hospital flow and is associated with longer inpatient length of stay, higher readmission rates and increased risk of mortality and medical errors.
Yasser Alotaibi +2 more
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Investigating organizational quality improvement systems, patient empowerment, organizational culture, professional involvement and the quality of care in European hospitals: the 'Deepening our Understanding of Quality Improvement in Europe (DUQuE)' project. [PDF]
, 2010 BACKGROUND: Hospitals in European countries apply a wide range of quality improvement strategies. Knowledge of the effectiveness of these strategies, implemented as part of an overall hospital quality improvement system, is limited.
Andrew Thompson +34 more
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Hepatology Communications, 2021 The complexity of cirrhosis requires patients and their caregivers to be well educated to improve outcomes. Data are lacking regarding how to best educate patients and their caregivers in the setting of cirrhosis.
Zachary M. Saleh +3 more
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Continuous Improvement in Continuous Quality Control [PDF]
Clinical Chemistry, 2016 “Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.” So observed John Ruskin, Victorian writer and critic of art, architecture, and society (1), unknowingly foreshadowing the emergence of quality science in the 20th century. Statistical QC came from Bell Telephone Laboratories, where Shewhart developed the statistical control ...
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Framework for continuous improvement of production processes [PDF]
, 2015 This research introduces a new approach of using Six Sigma DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve, Control) methodology. This approach integrates various tools and methods into a single framework, which consists of five steps.
Sahno, Jevgeni +3 more
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Developing patient-centred care: an ethnographic study of patient perceptions and influence on quality improvement. [PDF]
, 2015 BACKGROUND: Understanding quality improvement from a patient perspective is important for delivering patient-centred care. Yet the ways patients define quality improvement remains unexplored with patients often excluded from improvement work.
Cicely Marston +3 more
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Reducing hospital-acquired pressure injuries
BMJ Open Quality, 2019 Hospital-acquired pressure injury is a common preventable condition. Our hospital is a 144-bed governmental hospital in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia that was found to have a 7.5% prevalence of hospital-acquired pressure injury in 2016.
Yasser K Al-Otaibi +2 more
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Media Komunikasi Teknik Sipil, 2021 Kaizen as a quality management system offers a new approach to increase productivity by improving existing production processes without investing in new tools/procedures.
Kartika Nur Rahma Putri
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