If you can’t measure it- you can’t change it – a longitudinal study on improving quality of care in hospitals and health centers in rural Kenya [PDF]
Background: The Kenyan Ministry of Health- Department of Standards and Regulations sought to operationalize the Kenya Quality Assurance Model for Health.
Brodowski, Marc +10 more
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Background: The CCAENA questionnaire was developed to assess care continuity across levels from the patients’ perspective. The aim is to provide additional evidence on the psychometric properties of the scales of this questionnaire.
Marta Beatriz Aller +8 more
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Outcomes research shifting the dominant research paradigm in physical therapy
This article discusses outcomes research in physical therapy and places its conceptual roots within the work on quality-of-care assessment. An argument is advanced that the outcomes research movement in medicine has stimulated clinical researchers in ...
Alan M. Jette
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Ten-year Development of General Practice in China:Opportunities and Challenges [PDF]
ObjectiveTo review the strengths and limitations of the development of general practice in China during the last decade (2010—2020) and to assess the opportunities and challenges for its future development.MethodsData were collected from statistic ...
YANG Hui, HAN Jianjun, XU Yanli, GAO Xiaohuan, WANG Yang, YANG Yunli, CAO Xinyang
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Personality disorder in primary care : factors associated with therapy process and outcome. [PDF]
Assessment and treatment of personality disorder (PD) is a key issue in UK mental health service provision (NIMH report, 2003), but there is limited information on individuals with personality disorder presenting to primary care mental health services ...
Burrell-Hodgson, Gerrard +3 more
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Hospital staff experiences of their relationships with adults who self-harm: a meta-synthesis [PDF]
Purpose This review aimed to synthesize qualitative literature exploring inpatient hospital staff experiences of their relationships with people who self-harm.
Glover, Lesley, O'Connor, Sophie
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SPO Model-based Quality Assessment for Services Provided by the Family Doctor Studio [PDF]
Family doctor studio is a new concept derived from the general practice clinic in primary care institutions, which is a platform and carrier used by a general practice team to serve the contracted residents. However, the research on family doctor studios
Changming LIU, Xiaoyang LIAO, Huadong CHEN
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Background Studies investigating different medical conditions and settings have demonstrated mixed results regarding the weekend effect. However, data on the outcome of elderly patients hospitalised on weekends is scarce.
Steffie H. A. Brouns +5 more
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Immediate Outcome Indicators in Perioperative Care: A Controlled Intervention Study on Quality Improvement in Hospitals in Tanzania. [PDF]
Outcome assessment is the standard for evaluating the quality of health services worldwide. In this study, outcome has been divided into immediate and final outcome.
A Donabedian +30 more
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Early high flow nasal cannula therapy in bronchiolitis, a prospective randomised control trial (protocol): A Paediatric Acute Respiratory Intervention Study (PARIS) [PDF]
Background Bronchiolitis imposes the largest health care burden on non-elective paediatric hospital admissions worldwide, with up to 15 % of cases requiring admission to intensive care.
Andreas Schibler +13 more
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