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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
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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
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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
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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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Patients and health care professionals: Partners in health care in Croatia? [PDF]

, 2013
Objectives. To explore quality in hospitals from the patients’ and health care professionals’ perspective in line with Act on the Protection of Patient Rights. Design.
Montgomery Anthony, Brborovic Hana, Mustajbegovic Jadranka, Milosevic Milan   +3 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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Quality Assurance Indicators of Long-Term Care in European Countries. ENEPRI Research Report No. 110, April 2012 [PDF]

, 2012
This study reports on the quality indicators that were collected by the ANCIEN project partners in each country considered in Work Package 5 (Quality in Long-Term Care).
Casanova, Georgia, Dandi, Roberto
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