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Patients’ Perceptions of Care Are Associated With Quality of Hospital Care

American Journal of Medical Quality, 2015
Favorable patient experience and low complication rates have been proposed as essential components of patient-centered medical care. Patients' perception of care is a key performance metric and is used to determine payments to hospitals. It is unclear if there is a correlation between technical quality of care and patient satisfaction.
Spencer M. Stein, M. Day, R. Karia, L. Hutzler, J. Bosco   +4 more
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Hospital credentialing and quality of care

Social Science & Medicine, 2000
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of hospital credentialing standards on surgical outcomes for selected procedures. The study used hospital credentialing practices from a 1996 survey of North Carolina community hospitals, with surgical outcomes derived from a statewide database of inpatient surgical discharges in 1995.
F A, Sloan, C J, Conover, D, Provenzale
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Quality of pharmaceutical care in hospitals

American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, 1975
The objective of this study was to measure the quality of pharmaceutical services provided to hospital inpatients. Using Donabedian's model, normative standards from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals and the American Society of Hospital Pharmacists were used to develop a personal interview schedule to access the structure and process ...
R L, Mikeal, T R, Brown, H L, Lazarus, M C, Vinson   +3 more
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Hospital Readmissions and Quality of Care

Medical Care, 1999
Readmission rates are often proposed as markers for quality of care. However, a consistent link between readmissions and quality has not been established.To test the relation of readmission to quality and the utility of readmissions as hospital quality measures.One thousand, seven hundred and fifty-eight Medicare patients hospitalized in four states ...
J S, Weissman, J Z, Ayanian, S, Chasan-Taber, M J, Sherwood, C, Roth, A M, Epstein   +5 more
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Hospital Governance And The Quality Of Care

Health Affairs, 2010
Hospitals' boards may influence the quality of care that hospitals provide, but their engagement in quality-related issues is largely unknown. We surveyed a nationally representative sample of board chairs of 1,000 U.S. hospitals to understand their expertise, perspectives, and activities in clinical quality. We found that fewer than half of the boards
Ashish, Jha, Arnold, Epstein
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Measuring Quality of Hospital Care

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1995
To the Editor. —The key finding recently reported by Dr Miller and colleagues1and featured as an Original Contribution was previously described.2However, the previous interpretation was very different. The significant inverse relationship between likelihood of hospitalization and all-cause, 30-day, postadmission-modeled mortality (the hospital sample
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Residential Care in Hospital and in the Community – Quality of Care and Quality of Life

British Journal of Psychiatry, 1996
BackgroundThe reduction of beds in long-stay hospitals has led to concerns over the quality of care offered to the remaining residents as well as that provided in the community. This study seeks to compare the quality of care and quality of life (reported satisfaction) from residents in both types of setting.MethodA cross-sectional comparison was made ...
G, Shepherd, M, Muijen, R, Dean, M, Cooney   +3 more
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