Quality management in surgery: improving clinical and surgical outcomes
Revista do Colégio Brasileiro de Cirurgiões, 2020 Quality is a term used by various specialists, from different perspectives, having as a common point to identify focuses that promote their development in institutional management.
RAPHAELLA PAULA FERREIRA +3 more
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Assessment of canine health and preventative care outcomes of a community medicine program [PDF]
Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 2018 The objective of this study was to assess if use of a community based veterinary medical program (the Tufts at Tech Community Veterinary Clinic) was related to indicators of canine health and well-being in a low-income community through the provision of low-cost preventative care.
Megan Kiely Mueller +3 more
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Quality of life as an instrument for need assessment and outcome assessment of health care in chronic patients [PDF]
Quality and Safety in Health Care, 1999 Introduction Quality of life is generally acknowledged as a central concept in health care, but its full application in healthcare research and clinical practice are still being debated. With an increasing prevalence of chronic diseases and the focus of health care expanding from “adding years to life” to “adding life to years”, there is a growing ...
van den Bos, GAM, Triemstra, AHM
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Assessment of variation in long-term outcomes of integrated care initiatives in Dutch health care
International Journal of Care Coordination, 2022 Introduction The care for many patients with diabetes mellitus type 2 in the Netherlands, is contracted by a local care group. The healthcare providers, who collectively shape a care group, provide protocolled diabetes care.
Katalin Katona +2 more
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Prognostic Factors of Outcome in Methanol Poisoning; an 8-year Retrospective Cross-sectional Study
Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine, 2020 Introduction: Identification of high-risk patients with poor prognosis is essential for quick diagnosis and treatment of methanol poisoning to prevent death and improve the outcome.
Vahid Yousefinejad +4 more
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Assessing outcomes of ear molding therapy by health care providers and convolutional neural network [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 AbstractEar molding therapy is a nonsurgical technique to correct certain congenital auricular deformities. While the advantages of nonsurgical treatments over otoplasty are well-described, few studies have assessed aesthetic outcomes. In this study, we compared assessments of outcomes of ear molding therapy for 283 ears by experienced healthcare ...
Rami R. Hallac +10 more
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Process versus outcome indicators in the assessment of quality of health care [PDF]
International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 2001 This paper reviews the relative strengths and weaknesses of outcome and process measures as performance indicators in health care. Differences in outcome may be due to case mix, how the data were collected, chance, or quality of care. Health care is only one determinant of health and other factors have important effects on health outcomes, such as ...
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Diversity and Regional Inequalities: Assessing the Outcomes of the Spanish 'System of Health Care Services' [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2004 The consolidation of a universal health system coupled with a process of regional devolution characterise the institutional reforms of the National Health System (NHS) in Spain in the last two decades. However, scarce empirical evidence has been reported on the effects of both changes in health inputs, outputs and outcomes, both at the country and at ...
Guillem López +2 more
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GCT: What happened after 10 years of curettage and cement? Retrospective study of 46 cases [PDF]
Acta Ortopédica Brasileira, 2014 OBJECTIVE: To compare the functional outcome of patients with and without arthrosis, and to determine whether the development of arthrosis is related to the distance of the tumor from the subchondral bone.
André Mathias Baptista +5 more
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The Assessment and Impact of Careless Responding in Routine Outcome Monitoring within Mental Health Care [PDF]
Multivariate Behavioral Research, 2019 Careless responding by mental health patients on self-report assessments is rarely investigated in routine care despite the potential for serious consequences such as faulty clinical decisions. We investigated validity indices most appropriate for detecting careless responding in routine outcome monitoring (ROM) in mental health-care.
Conijn, J.M. +4 more
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