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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
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Private sector delivery of health services in developing countries: a mixed-methods study on quality assurance in social franchises

BMC Health Services Research, 2013
Background Across the developing world health care services are most often delivered in the private sector and social franchising has emerged, over the past decade, as an increasingly popular method of private sector health care delivery.
Schlein Karen, De La Cruz Anna York, Gopalakrishnan Tisha, Montagu Dominic   +3 more
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The Influence of Quality Assurance and Supportive Supervision on the Quality of Medical Care in Children’s Hospitals of the Municipal Level of the Rostov Region

Педиатрическая фармакология, 2017
Background. Improving the quality of medical care is the absolute priority of the World Health Organization and all socially-oriented ministries and departments around the world.Objective.
Tatiana V. Kulichenko, Alexander A. Baranov, Leyla S. Namazova-Baranova, Svetlana A. Mukhortova, Svetlana G. Piskunova, Elena A. Besedina, Dmytrij V. Prometnoy   +6 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
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The DMP atlas for North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany: results of the disease management programmes on district level

Research in Health Services & Regions
Disease Management Programmes (DMP) in Germany were initiated to enhance the quality of ambulatory health care for specific chronic diseases. They aim to prevent the progression of the disease and comorbidity as well as to improve quality of life.
Sabine Groos, Jens Kretschmann, Arne Weber, Michaela Assheuer, Bernd Hagen   +4 more
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Point-of-Care Haematology Analyser Quality Assurance Programme: a rural nursing perspective [PDF]

Journal of Primary Health Care, 2021
BACKGROUND AND CONTEXTRural health services without an onsite laboratory lack timely access to haematology results. Set in New Zealand's far north, this paper provides a rural nursing perspective on how a health service remote from a laboratory ...
Geoffrey Herd, Katharina Blattner, Catherine Beazley   +2 more
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Quality Assurance in Our Health Care System [PDF]

Quality Assurance and Utilization Review, 1986
Peer Reviewed ; http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/66752/2/10.1177_0885713X8600100104 ...
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Guidelines for Pediatric Radiotherapy Simulation: A Report From the Children's Oncology Group Radiation Oncology Discipline

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Pediatric radiation therapy presents unique challenges compared to adult treatments, including those of immobilization, potential need for sedation, and the critical importance of accurate, reproducible positioning. Additionally, heightened attention to imaging doses is necessary to minimize long‐term toxicity in survivors.
Parham Alaei, Stephen Mihalcik, Sujith Baliga, Young Kwok, Dana Casey, Eric Ehler, Christiane Burton, John C. Breneman, Daphne A. Haas‐Kogan, Suzanne L. Wolden, Arnold C. Paulino, Nadia N. Laack, Natia Esiashvili, Sarah Milgrom, Christine Hill‐Kayser, Thomas J. Fitzgerald, John A. Kalapurakal, Chia‐Ho Hua   +17 more
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Improved Early Referral in Long‐Term Survivor Care With Institutional Standardized Practice Among Childhood Leukemia Survivors#

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2018, the Texas Children's Cancer and Hematology Center Leukemia Program implemented a practice standard to support the transition from treatment to survivorship that includes shared, alternating care between leukemia and survivorship clinicians and a reminder to refer survivors to the long‐term survivor clinic (LTSC) 2 years after ...
Ji Yun Tark, Kayla L. Foster, Omar Shakeel, Mary C. Shapiro, Shawki L. Qasim, ZoAnn Dreyer, Eric S. Schafer, Ashley M. Butler, Austin L. Brown, Maria Monica Gramatges   +9 more
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Quality Assurance in Health Care: Lessons for Others [PDF]

International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 1994
The issue of quality assurance is very wide and concerns itself with practically all spheres of human activity. But it is most important in the delivery of medical care where there will be serious consequences to different mistakes. So far we have not paid enough attention to these questions in our country.
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