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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, PHILLIPE ABREU, FLAVIO DANIEL SAAVEDRA TOMASICH, VINICIUS BASSO PRETI   +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, Stephanie Chubb, Gregory Wolfus, Emily McCobb   +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, Malou Dorine Menting, Ylva Michelle Pisters   +2 more
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Patient-reported outcome data generated in a clinical intervention in community mental health care - psychometric properties [PDF]

, 2012
Background DIALOG is an intervention to structure the communication between patient and key worker, which has been shown to improve patient outcomes in community mental health care.
McCabe, R, Reininghaus, Ulrich, Reininghaus, U., Golden, E, Priebe, S., Golden Eoin, Golden, Eoin, Reininghaus Ulrich, Priebe, Stefan, McCabe, R., Reininghaus, U, Golden, E., McCabe Rosemarie, McCabe, Rose, McCabe, Rosemarie, Priebe Stefan, Priebe, S   +16 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, Badia Moradi, Anvar Mohammadi Baneh, Farshad Sheikhesmaeili, Asrin Babahajian   +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, Sarah A. Jackson, Jessica Grant, Kaylyn Fisher, Sarah Scheiwe, Elizabeth Wetz, Jeyna Perez, Jeon Lee, Krishna Chitta, James R. Seaward, Alex A. Kane   +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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Systematic review and economic modelling of the relative clinical benefit and cost-effectiveness of laparoscopic surgery and robotic surgery for removal of the prostate in men with localised prostate cancer [PDF]

, 2012
PMID: 23127367 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] Free full text Funding for this study was provided by the Health Technology Assessment programme of the National Institute for Health Research.Peer ...
Royle, J., C Robertson, Pickard, R., C Ramsay, Close, A, Jia, X., Fraser, C., Armstrong, N, Royle, J, Rushton, S P, Robertson, C., Ramsay, C, D Jenkinson, Gurung, T, Lam, T B, Mowatt, G, Fraser, C, Neal, D. E., Rushton, S. P., Armstrong, N., Eden, C. G., MC Robinson, Jenkinson, D, Robinson, M. C., CG Eden, Vale, L, Sharma, P., MDF Shirley, DA Barocas, Lam, T. B., Sharma, P, J Royle, Neal, D E, L Vale, Close, A., Barocas, D A, Robinson, M C, A Close, Robertson, C, TB Lam, DE Neal, Ramsay, C. R. (Craig R.), Gurung, T. (Tara), Mowatt, G., C Fraser, Shirley, M D F, SP Rushton, N Armstrong, Pickard, R, Eden, C G, Barocas, D. A., P Sharma, Vale, L. (Luke), Jenkinson, D., T Gurung, R Pickard, Soomro, N., G Mowatt, Shirley, M. D. F., Jia, X, Soomro, N, N Soomro, X Jia   +62 more
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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, Joan Costa-Font, Ivan Planas   +2 more
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