Infectious Disease Reports, 2017 Many quality indicators for appropriate antibiotic use have been developed. We aimed to make a systematic inventory, including the development methodology and validation procedures, of currently available quality indicators (QIs) for appropriate ...
Marlot C. Kallen, Jan M. Prins
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Quality Indicators in Palliative Radiation Oncology: Development and Pilot Testing
Advances in Radiation Oncology, 2022 Purpose: A quality indicator (QI) is a valuable tool to evaluate the quality of health care systems. In palliative radiation oncology, only a few related QIs have been developed to date.
Tetsuo Saito, MD, PhD +9 more
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Evidence for publicly reported quality indicators in residential long-term care: a systematic review
BMC Health Services Research, 2022 Background An increasing number of countries are using or planning to use quality indicators (QIs) in residential long-term care. Knowledge regarding the current state of evidence on usage and methodological soundness of publicly reported clinical ...
Magdalena Osińska +2 more
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Defining a roadmap for harmonizing quality indicators in Laboratory Medicine: A consensus statement on behalf of the IFCC Working Group "laboratory Error and Patient Safety" and EFLM Task and Finish Group "performance specifications for the extra-analytical phases" [PDF]
, 2016 The improving quality of laboratory testing requires a deep understanding of the many vulnerable steps involved in the total examination process (TEP), along with the identification of a hierarchy of risks and challenges that need to be addressed.
Sciacovelli, Laura +8 more
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Recent progress on univariate and multivariate polynomial and spline quasi-interpolants [PDF]
, 2004 Polynomial and spline quasi-interpolants (QIs) are practical and effective approximation operators. Among their remarkable properties, let us cite for example: good shape properties, easy computation and evaluation (no linear system to solve), uniform ...
A.T. Diallo +43 more
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Developing Iranian primary health care quality framework: a national study
BMC Public Health, 2019 Background Providing comprehensive and high-quality services is one of the most important goals of the health systems and a basic principle for Universal Health Coverage (UHC).
Ramin Rezapour +4 more
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Procurement and Predation: Dynamic Sourcing from Financially Constrained Suppliers [PDF]
, 2013 This paper studies the interaction between financially constrained and financially strong firms on a procurement market. It characterizes and discusses a procurement agency’s optimal response when faced with financially asymmetric firms. By considering a
Arve, Malin
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Discussiones Mathematicae - General Algebra and Applications, 2017 Summary: In this paper, the notion of a QI-algebra is introduced which is a generalization of a BI-algebra and there are studied its properties. We considered ideals, congruence kernels in a QI-algebra and characterized congruence kernels whenever a QI-algebra is right distributive.
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Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 2006 At a conference of practitioners and scholars of Chinese Medicine held in Australia recently, it was reported that China has, in recent decades, spent an inordinate amount of resources on experiments to determine the existence and nature of Qi. The nub of the report was that China is easing up on this research.
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Quality indicators for osteoarthritis pain management in the primary care setting
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 2023 Background Development of valid and feasible quality indicators (QIs) is needed to track quality initiatives for osteoarthritis pain management in primary care settings.
Elsie Rizk +15 more
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