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Overview of the quality assurance movement in health care

Best Practice & Research Clinical Gastroenterology, 2011
This chapter aims to describe the origin and current status of quality assurance (QA) in health care and to provide a background of similar developments in other industries, which have provided a major impetus for QA initiatives in health care. The interest in quality and safety in the health care sector has rapidly risen over the past decade.
Jerome Sint Nicolaas, Monique E. van Leerdam, Ernst J. Kuipers, Vincent de Jonge   +3 more
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Quality Assurance of Health Wearables Data: Participatory Workshop on Barriers, Solutions, and Expectations

JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 2020
BackgroundThe ubiquity of health wearables and the consequent production of patient-generated health data (PGHD) are rapidly escalating. However, the utilization of PGHD in routine clinical practices is still low because of data quality issues.
Abdolkhani, Robab, Gray, Kathleen, Borda, Ann, DeSouza, Ruth   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Learning and improving in long-term care internationally: the International Prevalence Measurement of Care Quality (LPZ)

Geriatrics, Gerontology and Aging, 2022
Long-term care (LTC) for older adults is an essential part of how health and social care systems respond to population ageing. Different long-term care systems in different countries have taken differing approaches to quality assurance, ranging from ...
Irma H.J. Everink, Adam L. Gordon, Suzanne Rijcken, Selvedina Osmancevic, Jos M.G.A. Schols   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

PATIENTS SATISFACTION ANALYSIS OF PRIMARY HEALTHCARE SERVICE QUALITY IN BONDOWOSO, INDONESIA [PDF]

, 2023
Indicators of efficiency and quality in healthcare often include patient satisfaction with the care they received. Health managers and policymakers may benefit greatly from the information gleaned from patient satisfaction surveys when conducting ...
Bachtiar, Adang, Candi, Cicilya, Nazhifah, Naurah, Oktamianti, Puput   +3 more
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If you can’t measure it- you can’t change it – a longitudinal study on improving quality of care in hospitals and health centers in rural Kenya

BMC Health Services Research, 2018
Background The Kenyan Ministry of Health- Department of Standards and Regulations sought to operationalize the Kenya Quality Assurance Model for Health.
Michael Marx, Christine Nitschke, Maureen Nafula, Mabel Nangami, Marc Brodowski, Irmgard Marx, Helen Prytherch, Charles Kandie, Irene Omogi, Friederike Paul-Fariborz, Joachim Szecsenyi   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Quality assurance of health management information system in Kayunga district, Uganda

African Evaluation Journal, 2018
Background: An efficient health management information system (HMIS) improves health care delivery and outcomes. However, in most rural settings in Uganda, paper-based HMIS are widely used to monitor public health care services.
Harriet R. Kagoya, Dan Kibuule
doaj   +1 more source

Quality assurance in mental health: A case study of the Life Esidimeni tragedy

South African Journal of Psychiatry, 2018
Introduction: Mental health has been included in the Sustainable Development Goals and quality assurance is needed to ensure its achievement. To date, more than 140 people with severe mental illness have died in the Life Esidimeni tragedy.
Lesley J. Robertson, Malegapuru W. Makgoba   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Development and Validation of ML-DQA -- a Machine Learning Data Quality Assurance Framework for Healthcare [PDF]

arXiv, 2022
The approaches by which the machine learning and clinical research communities utilize real world data (RWD), including data captured in the electronic health record (EHR), vary dramatically. While clinical researchers cautiously use RWD for clinical investigations, ML for healthcare teams consume public datasets with minimal scrutiny to develop new ...
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Experiences of postnatal mothers with quality of care including water, sanitation and hygiene amenities during the outbreak of COVID - 19 in Ghana: An institutional cross-sectional study

Public Health in Practice, 2023
Objective: To investigate the experiences and perceptions of postnatal mothers with quality of healthcare including WASH amenities among postnatal mothers in Ghana during the COVID-19 outbreak. Study design: The study was an institutional cross-sectional.
Mary Eyram Ashinyo, Vida Duti, Stephen Dajaan Dubik, Kingsley E. Amegah, Robert Kaba Alhassan   +4 more
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Exploring quality standards implementation at a South African municipality’s health facilities

Curationis, 2023
Background: Despite government initiatives to ensure the delivery of safe and high-quality care in health establishments, most health establishments in the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa were non-compliant with the National Core ...
Seani R. Matahela, Ayobami P. Adekola, Azwihangwisi H. Mavhandu-Mudzusi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source