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Bayes rules for optimally using Bayesian hierarchical regression models in provider profiling to identify high-mortality hospitals

BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2008
Background There is a growing trend towards the production of "hospital report-cards" in which hospitals with higher than acceptable mortality rates are identified.
Austin Peter C
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Barriers for vaccination of healthcare workers

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2021
Outbreaks of vaccine preventable diseases (VPDs) in hospital settings remain a challenge even in countries with established (childhood-) vaccination programs.
Anna Korsgaard Eltvedt, Anja Poulsen, Thilde Nordmann Winther, Marie-Louise Von Linstow   +3 more
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Monitoring Pharmacy Student Adherence to World Health Organization Hand Hygiene Indications Using Radio Frequency Identification [PDF]

, 2016
Objective. To assess and improve student adherence to hand hygiene indications using radio frequency identification (RFID) enabled hand hygiene stations and performance report cards. Design.
Cipriano, Gabriela, Decker, Andrew S, Lavigne, Jill, Tsouri, Gill   +3 more
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Success of a sustained pharmaceutical care service with electronic adherence monitoring in patient with diabetes over 12 months [PDF]

, 2015
We report on the first polypharmacy adherence monitoring over 371 days, integrated into a pharmaceutical care service (counselling, electronic multidrug punch cards, feedback on recent electronic records) for a 65-year-old man with diabetes after ...
Arnet, Isabelle, Boeni, Fabienne, Hersberger, Kurt E.   +2 more
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Financial access to health care in Karuzi, Burundi: a household-survey based performance evaluation. [PDF]

, 2009
: BACKGROUND: In 2003, Médecins Sans Frontières, the provincial government, and the provincial health authority began a community project to guarantee financial access to primary health care in Karuzi province, Burundi. The project used a community-based
Bachy, Catherine, Lambert-Evans, Sophie, Philips, Mit, Ponsar, Frederique, Reid, Tony, Van Herp, Michel   +5 more
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Improving the quality of clinical coding and payments through student doctor–coder collaboration in a tertiary haematology department

BMJ Open Quality, 2020
Hospitals within the UK are paid for services provided by ‘Payment-by-Results’. In a system that rewards productivity, effective collaboration between coders and clinicians is crucial. However, clinical coding is frequently error prone and has been shown
Suha Abdulla, Natalie Simon, Kelvin Woodhams, Carla Hayman, Mohamed Oumar, Lucy Rose Howroyd, Gulshan Cindy Sethi   +6 more
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Ontario’s stroke report cards: Cross-continuum data linkage allows evaluation of system of care

International Journal of Population Data Science, 2018
Introduction Report cards or scorecards typically reflect one particular sector along the care continuum; however, stroke patients typically require acute care, inpatient rehabilitation and community care highlighting the need to link data sources to ...
Ruth Hall, Ferhana Khan, Jen Levi, Huiting Ma, Cally Martin, Cheryl Moher, Linda Kelloway, Elizabeth Linkewich, Mark Bayley   +8 more
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As easy as ABC: evaluation of safe sleep initiative on safe sleep compliance in a freestanding pediatric hospital

Injury Epidemiology, 2019
Background The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends the ABCs of safe infant sleep (alone, back, clear crib) to combat the increasing rates of Sudden Unexplained Infant Death (SUID).
Traci Leong, Manon Billaud, Maneesha Agarwal, Terri Miller, Terri McFadden, Jonathan Johnson, Sarah Gard Lazarus   +6 more
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Effects on incident reporting after educating residents in patient safety: a controlled study

BMC Health Services Research, 2011
Background Medical residents are key figures in delivering health care and an important target group for patient safety education. Reporting incidents is an important patient safety domain, as awareness of vulnerabilities could be a starting point for ...
Jansma José D, Wagner Cordula, ten Kate Reinier W, Bijnen Arnold B   +3 more
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A Rapid Assessment of the Quality of Neonatal Healthcare in Kilimanjaro Region, Northeast Tanzania. [PDF]

, 2012
While child mortality is declining in Africa there has been no evidence of a comparable reduction in neonatal mortality. The quality of inpatient neonatal care is likely a contributing factor but data from resource limited settings are few. The objective
AB Pembe, AS Nyamtema, Bernard Mbwele, C Klingenberg, C Opondo, CA Petti, CA Petti, CR Polage, D Acolet, DE Dow, E Ahman, Elizabeth Reddy, H Reyburn, HL Kidanto, HL Kidanto, Hugh Reyburn, J Newman, JE Lawn, JE Lawn, JK Rajaratnam, JM Belizan, K Gross, K Gross, K Manji, L Liu, LF Mott, M English, M English, M Mrisho, M Sarker, N Iriya, N Opiyo, R Lozano, SC Anyangwe, SG Hinderaker, SK Gaise, T Duke, UNICEF, United Nations Development Programme UNDP Tanzania, World Health Organization, World Health Organization, World Health Organization, ZA Bhutta   +42 more
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