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Quality of Care for Children Hospitalized With Asthma

Pediatrics, 2008
OBJECTIVES. The goals were (1) to identify evidence-based clinical process measures that are appropriate, feasible, and reliable for assessing the quality of inpatient asthma care for children and (2) to evaluate provider compliance with these measures.METHODS. Key asthma quality measures were identified by using a modified Rand appropriateness method,
Flory L, Nkoy, Bernhard A, Fassl, Tamara D, Simon, Bryan L, Stone, Rajendu, Srivastava, Per H, Gesteland, Gena M, Fletcher, Christopher G, Maloney   +7 more
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Is the Quality of Hospital Care a Function of Leadership?

The Health Care Manager, 2007
Multiple regression analysis was used to evaluate the relationship between hospital quality and independent variables of interest. While past studies have analyzed hospital efficiency to evaluate organizational performance, this study is unique because it evaluates the relationship between quality and efficiency.
Jeffrey P, Harrison, M Nicholas, Coppola
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Hospital Volume and Quality of Care for Emergency Gynecologic Care

Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2023
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the association between hospital volume and the quality of gynecologic emergency care for tubal ectopic pregnancies, ovarian torsion, and pelvic inflammatory disease (PID). METHODS: In this cross-sectional analysis, we analyzed patients who presented for ...
Vanessa, Kalinowska, Yongmei, Huang, Alexander, Buckley, Caryn M, St Clair, Tarah, Pua, Fady, Khoury-Collado, June Y, Hou, Dawn L, Hershman, Jason D, Wright   +8 more
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Health care quality in NHS hospitals

International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, 1996
Hospitals provide the same type of service, but they do not all provide the same quality of service. No one knows this better than patients. Reports the results of a market research exercise initiated to ascertain the different factors which patients of health care identify as being necessary to provide error‐free service quality with NHS hospitals. To
F N, Youssef, D, Nel, T, Bovaird
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Quality Change and the Demand for Hospital Care

Econometrica, 1977
change in the quality of care is primarily due to the increased demand caused by the growth of private and public insurance. The paper presents an analytic model of the hospital industry in which quality affects the demand for hospital services and in which the purchase of private insurance is endogenous.
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Validating Quality Indicators for Hospital Care

The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement, 1997
Many of the indicators used to monitor the quality of hospital care are resource intensive and ineffective. Furthermore, current efforts to develop new indicators for report cards are generally directed at the evaluation of health plans and are not constructed to help providers (physician groups, hospitals, and health plans that contract to provide ...
T P, Hofer, S J, Bernstein, R A, Hayward, S, DeMonner   +3 more
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Care in U.S. Hospitals — The Hospital Quality Alliance Program

New England Journal of Medicine, 2005
The Hospital Quality Alliance (HQA) is the first initiative that routinely reports data on hospitals' performance nationally. Heretofore, such data have been unavailable.We used data collected by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on 10 indicators of the quality of care for acute myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure, and ...
Ashish K, Jha, Zhonghe, Li, E John, Orav, Arnold M, Epstein   +3 more
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Is there an association between the quality of hospitals’ research and their quality of care?

Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, 2010
Objective: It is often claimed that hospitals that are leaders in biomedical research provide higher health care quality, or vice versa. Although several studies have shown a relationship between teaching status and quality of care, none has analysed the association between research output and hospital outcomes.
Joan, Pons, Carolina, Sais, Carles, Illa, Raül, Méndez, Eduard, Suñen, Mercè, Casas, Jordi, Camí   +6 more
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Nursing Work Environment, Turnover Intention, Job Burnout, and Quality of Care: The Moderating Role of Job Satisfaction.

Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 2019
PURPOSE The purpose of this study was twofold: (a) to assess predictors of the turnover intention, burnout, and perceived quality of care among nurses working in Oman, and (b) to examine the potential moderating role of job satisfaction on the ...
S. Al Sabei, L. Labrague, Amy Miner Ross, Suja Karkada, Alaa Albashayreh, Fatma Al Masroori, Nasra Al Hashmi   +6 more
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Hospital Prospective Payment and the Quality of Care

New England Journal of Medicine, 1988
Even before the advent of the Medicare prospective payment system (PPS) on October 1, 1983, concern was expressed that this new payment method would affect adversely the quality of hospital care gi...
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