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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 +6 more
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Exploring quality standards implementation at a South African municipality’s health facilities
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 +2 more
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Sickle Cell Disease Is an Inherent Risk for Asthma in a Sibling Comparison Study
ABSTRACT Introduction Sickle cell disease (SCD) and asthma share a complex relationship. Although estimates vary, asthma prevalence in children with SCD is believed to be comparable to or higher than the general population. Determining whether SCD confers an increased risk for asthma remains challenging due to overlapping symptoms and the ...
Suhei C. Zuleta De Bernardis +9 more
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Point-of-Care Haematology Analyser Quality Assurance Programme: a rural nursing perspective [PDF]
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 +2 more
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Quality Assurance in Our Health Care System [PDF]
Peer Reviewed ; http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/66752/2/10.1177_0885713X8600100104 ...
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Use of data from patient records for research : a model for best practice? [PDF]
In the UK National Health Service (NHS), the registered list and the clinical records of patients are an invaluable resource for the quality assurance of clinical care in General Practice (e.g.
Dobbs, Frank, Mathers, Nigel
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Implementing a system to evaluate quality assurance in rehabilitation in Greece.
BACKGROUND: Use of a widely accepted quality assurance tool is an essential procedure of effective and result-oriented quality management in the rehabilitation sector, and generally in health care and social services, but is still lacking in Greece ...
Dimitriadis, Vassilios +4 more
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ABSTRACT Background The Improving Population Outcomes for Renal Tumours of childhood (IMPORT) is a prospective clinical observational study capturing detailed demographic and outcome data on children and young people diagnosed with renal tumours in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.
Naomi Ssenyonga +56 more
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US Experiences for Quality Assurance in Swiss Health Care Settings [PDF]
This report illustrates the first step of a research project at the Institute of Business Research, University of Zurich, concerning quality improvement techniques in Swiss health care institutions.
SCHMIDT, SASCHA LEONARD
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The costs of accessible quality assured syphilis diagnostics: informing quality systems for rapid syphilis tests in a Tanzanian setting. [PDF]
OBJECTIVES: To determine the costs of Rapid Syphilis Test (RSTs) as compared with rapid plasma reagin (RPR) when implemented in a Tanzanian setting, and to determine the relative impact of a quality assurance (QA) system on the cost of RST implementation.
Changalucha, John +6 more
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