Medical audit and total quality management in health care: a sociological assessment [PDF]
, 1994 Changes in the organization, funding and delivery of health care are affecting health systems in all societies in the search for greater economy, efficiency and effectiveness. The issue of quality is at the forefront of these changes and has been largely
Kinchin-White, James
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Tumor B‐cell infiltration in platinum‐treated advanced muscle‐invasive urothelial carcinoma
Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.Bladder tumors with higher pretreatment memory B‐cell infiltration were linked to longer survival after cisplatin chemotherapy, but not carboplatin. These tumors also showed more organized immune structures (tertiary lymphoid structures) and a shared pro‐inflammatory B‐cell‐rich community, suggesting that memory B cells may help identify patients most ...
Konrad Stawiski +10 more
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Comparison of the quality assurance system of dental professionals in Japan, the EU and the ASEAN
Japanese Dental Science Review, 2019 In recent years, the society requires a flexible response of the dental society to deal with changes in disease structure in the super-aging society in Japan.
Jun Tsuruta
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The role of data in health care disparities in medicaid managed care
, 2012 Background: The Affordable Care Act includes provisions to standardize the collection of data on health care quality that can be used to measure disparities.
Guthrie, Bruce +2 more
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Health System Support for Childbirth care in Southern Tanzania: Results from a Health Facility Census. [PDF]
, 2013 Progress towards reaching Millennium Development Goals four (child health) and five (maternal health) is lagging behind, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, despite increasing efforts to scale up high impact interventions.
Ronsmans, Carine +19 more
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Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.BCL9 and BCL9L drive bladder cancer progression by enhancing β‐catenin signaling, promoting proliferation, migration, invasion, and organoid growth. Genetic depletion of BCL9(L) suppresses malignant phenotypes, while pharmacological disruption of the β‐catenin/BCL9(L) complex with ZW4864 inhibits canonical Wnt signaling and tumor‐associated cellular ...
Roland Kotolloshi +11 more
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Rollout of quality assurance interventions in labor room in two districts of Bihar, India
Indian Journal of Public Health, 2016 Background: Quality of care at the facilities during childbirth remains a major concern. Improved quality could have the greatest dividend in saving maternal and newborn lives.
Jyoti Sharma +5 more
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FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.ERα splice variant ERα∆7 lacks the C‐terminus, and its expression may change phenotypes of breast cancers. Our results showed that ERα∆7 is found in the luminal A subtype, and elevated ERα∆7 levels are linked to improved cell survival with lower proliferation and migration.
Long Wai Tsui +10 more
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The Challenges of Developing an Instrument to Assess Health Provider Motivation at Primary Care Level in Rural Burkina Faso, Ghana and Tanzania. [PDF]
, 2012 The quality of health care depends on the competence and motivation of the health workers that provide it. In the West, several tools exist to measure worker motivation, and some have been applied to the health sector.
Marx, M. +29 more
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From assurance to coproduction : A century of improving the quality of health-care service
, 2021 Background: Over the last century, the invitation to improve health-care service quality has taken many different forms: questions, observations, methods, tools and actions have emerged and evolved to create relevant 'improvement work.' In this paper we ...
Foster, T.,, Batalden, P.,
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