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Changes in Quality of Care after Hospital Mergers and Acquisitions.

open access: yesNew England Journal of Medicine, 2020
BACKGROUND The hospital industry has consolidated substantially during the past two decades and at an accelerated pace since 2010. Multiple studies have shown that hospital mergers have led to higher prices for commercially insured patients, but research
Nancy D. Beaulieu   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Negative pressure wound therapy in patients with wounds healing by secondary intention: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials

open access: yesSystematic Reviews, 2020
Background Negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) is a widely used method of wound treatment. We performed a systematic review of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) comparing the patient-relevant benefits and harms of NPWT with standard wound therapy ...
Yvonne Zens   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Organizational Excellence Status of Iranian Hospitals with Emphasis on EFQM Model: A Meta-Analysis Study

open access: yesطب انتظامی, 2023
Aims: Monitoring the performance of health care systems is a vital requirement for improving the quality of health care services. This review research was conducted on the results of recent studies in the field of organizational excellence in Iranian ...
Ruhollah Alikhan Gorgani   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

16. Diabetes Care in the Hospital: Standards of Care in Diabetes-2024.

open access: yesDiabetes Care, 2023
The American Diabetes Association (ADA) "Standards of Care in Diabetes" includes the ADA's current clinical practice recommendations and is intended to provide the components of diabetes care, general treatment goals and guidelines, and tools to evaluate
Nuha A. ElSayed   +21 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Quality and safety of in-hospital care for acute medical patients at weekends: a qualitative study

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2018
Background The increased mortality risk associated with weekend admission to hospital (the ‘weekend effect’) has been reported across many health systems. More recently research has focused on causal mechanisms.
Elizabeth Sutton   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Quality in Australian Hospitals—Who Cares? [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal for Quality in Health Care, 1997
"Hospitals' errors kill 14,000 a year" screamed Australian newspaper headlines in June 1995 [1]. The media were reacting to the release of the preliminary results of the Quality in Australian Health Care Study. This government-sponsored study was conducted over three years in a selection of Australian hospitals. It involved retrospective medical record
H, Buchan, C, Brook
openaire   +2 more sources

Case-crossover study to examine the change in postpartum risk of pulmonary embolism over time

open access: yesBMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2017
Background Although the current guidelines recommend anticoagulation up until 6 weeks after delivery in women at high risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE), the risk of VTE may extend beyond 6 weeks.
Grégoire Ficheur   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

16. Diabetes Care in the Hospital: Standards of Care in Diabetes-2023.

open access: yesDiabetes Care, 2022
The American Diabetes Association (ADA) "Standards of Care in Diabetes" includes the ADA's current clinical practice recommendations and is intended to provide the components of diabetes care, general treatment goals and guidelines, and tools to evaluate
Nuha A. ElSayed   +19 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Length of Hospital Stay and Quality of Care [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The relationship between Length Of hospital Stay (LOS) and Quality-of-Care (QofC) is demanding and difficult to assess. Indeed, a multifaceted intertwining network of countless services and LOS factors is available, which may range from organizational culture to hospital physicians availability, without discarding the possibility of lifting the foot on
José Neves 0001   +4 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Effect of changes in hospital nursing resources on improvements in patient safety and quality of care: A panel study

open access: yesMedical Care, 2018
Background: Evidence shows hospitals with better nursing resources have better outcomes but few studies have shown that outcomes change over time within hospitals as nursing resources change.
D. Sloane   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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