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Testing quality indicators and proposing benchmarks for physician-staffed emergency medical services: a prospective Nordic multicentre study

BMJ Open, 2019
Objectives A consensus study from 2017 developed 15 response-specific quality indicators (QIs) for physician-staffed emergency medical services (P-EMS). The aim of this study was to test these QIs for important characteristics in a real clinical setting.
Helge Haugland, Anna Olkinuora, Leif Rognås, David Ohlen, Andreas Krüger   +4 more
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New Findings on Indicator-based Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms: A Brief Summary

CLEI Electronic Journal, 2022
Quality indicators (QIs) are functions that assign a real value to a set that represents the Pareto front approximation of a multi-objective optimization problem.
Jesús Guillermo Falcón-Cardona
doaj   +1 more source

Revealing Facts About CAR-T Cell Therapy [PDF]

ImmunoAnalysis, 2022
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapy is a fast-emerging treatment for several types of cancers and has several applications beyond oncology. It is a new emerging treatment targeting for a broad range of cancers.
Daggupati Sai Padmanjali, Boyina Revathi, Marri Jalaiah   +2 more
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Identifying quality indicators for prehospital emergency care services in the low to middle income setting: The South African perspective

African Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2019
Introduction: Historically, performance within the Prehospital Emergency Care (PEC) setting has been assessed primarily based on response times. While easy to measure and valued by the public, overall, response time targets are a poor predictor of ...
Ian Howard, Peter Cameron, Lee Wallis, Maaret Castrén, Veronica Lindström   +4 more
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Development of key quality indicators for appropriate antibiotic use in the Republic of Korea: results of a modified Delphi survey

Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, 2021
Background An effective antibiotic stewardship program relies on the measurement of appropriate antibiotic use, on which there is a lack of consensus.
Bongyoung Kim, Myung Jin Lee, Se Yoon Park, Song Mi Moon, Kyoung-Ho Song, Tae Hyong Kim, Eu Suk Kim, Hong Bin Kim, Korea Study Group for Antimicrobial Stewardship (KOSGAP)   +8 more
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Self-reported quality of care for older adults from 2004 to 2011: a cohort study [PDF]

, 2014
Background: little is known about changes in the quality of medical care for older adults over time. Objective: to assess changes in technical quality of care over 6 years, and associations with participants' characteristics.
Bachmann, Max O., Campbell, John L., Clark, Allan, Hardcastle, Antonia C., Henley, William E., Melzer, David, Mounce, Luke T. A., Richards, Suzanne H., Steel, Nick   +8 more
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Home care quality indicators based on the Resident Assessment Instrument-Home Care (RAI-HC): a systematic review

BMC Health Services Research, 2020
Background One way of measuring the quality of home care are quality indicators (QIs) derived from data collected with the Resident Assessment Instrument-Home Care (RAI-HC).
Aylin Wagner, René Schaffert, Nathalie Möckli, Franziska Zúñiga, Julia Dratva   +4 more
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Development of a set of process and structure indicators for palliative care: the Europall project [PDF]

, 2012
Background: By measuring the quality of the organisation of palliative care with process and structure quality indicators (QIs), patients, caregivers and policy makers are able to monitor to what extent recommendations are met, like those of the ...
Ahmed, N., Colombet, I., Engels, Y., Hasselaar, J., Mollard, J.-M., Radbruch, L., Van Beek, K., Vissers, K., Woitha, K.   +8 more
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Electrometry Using Coherent Exchange Oscillations in a Singlet-Triplet-Qubit [PDF]

, 2013
Two level systems that can be reliably controlled and measured hold promise in both metrology and as qubits for quantum information science (QIS). When prepared in a superposition of two states and allowed to evolve freely, the state of the system ...
Bluhm, H., Dial, O. E., Harvey, S. P., Shulman, M. D., Umansky, V., Yacoby, A.   +5 more
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Estimating and Reporting on the Quality of Inpatient Stroke Care by Veterans Health Administration Medical Centers [PDF]

, 2012
Background—Reporting of quality indicators (QIs) in Veterans Health Administration Medical Centers is complicated by estimation error caused by small numbers of eligible patients per facility.
Arling, Greg, Bravata, Dawn M., Chumbler, Neale R., Keyhani, Salomeh, Myers, Jennifer, Myers, Laura J., Ordin, Diana L., Phipps, Michael S., Reeves, Mathew, Ross, Joseph S., Roumie, Christianne L, Salanitro, Amanda H, Williams, Linda S.   +12 more
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