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Outcomes Assessment in Health Care Reform: Promise and Limitations
American Journal of Law & Medicine, 1994If the fundamental goals of the health care reform effort are to ensure universal access to an acceptable quality of health care at an affordable cost, then the threshold question for reform is: What health care services should be provided in an efficient, equitable system?Answering this question requires weighing a complex mix of medical and social ...
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Evaluability Assessment in Health Care: An Example of the Patient Care and Outcome Process
Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, 1995Abstract: Evaluability assessment is a critical first step toward successful program evaluation. Programs aimed at making difficult and significant changes to important health care services must be open to both the encouragement and the critical review that follow systematic evaluation efforts.
A. Casebeer, W. E. Thurston
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The Camberwell assessment of need as an outcome measure in routine mental health care
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 2006Subsidiary findings in several studies indicate that the standard summary scores (total number of needs, met needs and unmet needs) of the Camberwell Assessment of Need (CAN) may conceal important differences among patient populations at the item level of the measure.
Erik, Wennström, Frits-Axel, Wiesel
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Nutrition assessment outcomes: a strategy to improve health care.
Clinical laboratory management review : official publication of the Clinical Laboratory Management Association, 2000Nutrition assessment performed as part of hospital admission protocol can significantly reduce length of stay, costs of care, and the incidence of readmission by efficiently identifying patients with malnutrition. As reported in more than 150 clinical studies, malnutrition is a health problem of huge magnitude, potentially affecting more than half of ...
G R, Bickford +3 more
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Defining quality health care with outcomes assessment while achieving economic value.
Topics in health information management, 2000The effectiveness of a procedure is increasingly guided by the evaluation of patient outcomes. Outcomes data is used to develop clinical pathways of care and to define appropriate resource-use levels without sacrificing quality of care. Integration of the economic implications of medical services into an outcome-based guideline allows for the ...
L J, Shaw, D D, Miller
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Health Policy, 1996
Severity of a case is one of the ingredients in management systems. Severity adjustment systems have limitations, and confusion and diversity characterize definitions of severity of a case. These facts may be a consequence of lack of conceptual knowledge.
R T, Almeida, P, Carlsson
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Severity of a case is one of the ingredients in management systems. Severity adjustment systems have limitations, and confusion and diversity characterize definitions of severity of a case. These facts may be a consequence of lack of conceptual knowledge.
R T, Almeida, P, Carlsson
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Assessing Dental Care Utilization and Health Outcomes among Homeless Women of Reproductive Age
2023The purpose of this dissertation was to explore dental care utilization and oral health among women of reproductive age in the United States (U.S.) as well as examine adverse pregnancy and postpartum health outcomes in women who experienced homelessness before or around pregnancy.
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2016
Health disparities are defined by the U.S. department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as health differences that are closely correlated with social, economic, and environmental disadvantages. Health disparities are disproportionately present among racial and ethnic minorities as a result of disparities in income, unemployment, education, and housing
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Health disparities are defined by the U.S. department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as health differences that are closely correlated with social, economic, and environmental disadvantages. Health disparities are disproportionately present among racial and ethnic minorities as a result of disparities in income, unemployment, education, and housing
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Home health care industry braces for OASIS (Outcome and Assessment Information Set).
Healthcare benchmarks, 1999Use of Health Care Financing Administration's OASIS (Outcome and Assessment information Set) standardized data is now mandatory for all HHAs (home health care agencies) participating in the Medicare and Medicaid programs. While OASIS requires a "learning curve," incorporating it into the daily business of an HHA is not difficult.
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