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Continuous quality improvement program and its results of Korean Society for Cytopathology [PDF]

Journal of Pathology and Translational Medicine, 2020
Background Since 1995, the Korean Society for Cytopathology has overseen the Continuous Quality Improvement program for cytopathology laboratories. The Committee of Quality Improvement has carried out an annual survey of cytology data for each laboratory
Yoo-Duk Choi, Hoon-Kyu Oh, Su-Jin Kim, Kyung-Hee Kim, Yun-Kyung Lee, Bo-Sung Kim, Eun-Jeong Jang, Yoon-Jung Choi, Eun-Kyung Han, Dong-Hoon Kim, Younghee Choi, Chan-Kwon Jung, Sung-Nam Kim, Kyueng-Whan Min, Seok-Jin Yoon, Hun-Kyung Lee, Kyung Un Choi, Hye Kyoung Yoon   +17 more
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Clinical artificial intelligence quality improvement: towards continual monitoring and updating of AI algorithms in healthcare

npj Digital Medicine, 2022
Machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms have the potential to derive insights from clinical data and improve patient outcomes.
Jean Feng, Rachael V. Phillips, I. Malenica, Andrew M. Bishara, Alan E. Hubbard, L. Celi, R. Pirracchio   +6 more
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Application of CRISPR/Cas9 in Crop Quality Improvement

International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2021
The various crop species are major agricultural products and play an indispensable role in sustaining human life. Over a long period, breeders strove to increase crop yield and improve quality through traditional breeding strategies. Today, many breeders
Qier Liu, Fan Yang, Jingjuan Zhang, Hang Liu, S. Rahman, S. Islam, Wujun Ma, Maoyun She   +7 more
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A hierarchy of needs for remote undergraduate medical education: lessons from the medical student experience

BMC Medical Education, 2022
Purpose The disruption of undergraduate medical education (UME) by the COVID-19 pandemic has sparked rapid, real-time adjustments by medical educators and students.
Henrike C. Besche, Sarah Onorato, Stephen Pelletier, Sepideh Ashrafzadeh, Ashwini Joshi, Brenna Nelsen, Jaewon Yoon, Joyce Zhou, Andrea Schwartz, Barbara A. Cockrill   +9 more
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Driving communication forward: improving communication for palliative care patients around driving and opioids – a quality improvement report

BMJ Open Quality, 2023
Introduction The number of people requiring palliative care is increasing with an ageing comorbid population. Pain is a prevalent symptom for palliative care patients and is often managed with opioids.
Nicola Davey, Rebecca Allan, Seline Ismail-Callaghan, Megan Howarth, Stephanie Amanda Meddick-Dyson   +4 more
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Butyric acid-producing bacterial spore levels in conventional raw milk vary by farm

JDS Communications, 2023
Anaerobic butyric acid-producing sporeforming bacteria (BAB) are important microbial contaminants in raw milk that may lead to premature spoilage of certain cheeses during aging.
X. Shi, C. Qian, S.I. Murphy, M. Wiedmann, N.H. Martin   +4 more
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Defaulting peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) orders to single lumen: A quality improvement initiative at a Midwestern academic center 2022–2023

Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology, 2023
Defaulting the order for peripherally inserted central catheters (PICCs) placement to single lumen increased proportion of single-lumen insertions over total insertions from 42/126 (33%) to 57/104 (51)%. Single-lumen PICCs had a nonsignificant lower rate
Kathryn Trautman, Takaaki Kobayashi, Chad McPherson, Karen Brust   +3 more
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Development of the Illinois Surgical Quality Improvement Collaborative (ISQIC)

Annals of Surgery Open, 2023
Introduction:. In 2014, 56 Illinois hospitals came together to form a unique learning collaborative, the Illinois Surgical Quality Improvement Collaborative (ISQIC).
Karl Y. Bilimoria, MD, MS, Michael F. McGee, MD, Mark V. Williams, MD, Julie K. Johnson, MSPH, PhD, Amy L. Halverson, MD, Kevin J. O’Leary, MD, Paula Farrell, BSN, Juliana Thomas, MPH, Remi Love, MA, Lindsey Kreutzer, MPH, Allison R. Dahlke, MPH, Brianna D’Orazio, MPH, Steven Reinhart, MBA, Katelyn Dienes, MS, Mark Schumacher, MS, Ying Shan, MS, Christopher Quinn, MS, Vivek N. Prachand, MD, Susan Sullivan, BS, Kimberly A. Cradock, MD, Kelsi Boyd, RN, BSN, William Hopkinson, MD, Colleen Fairman, RN,, David Odell, MD, MS, Jonah J. Stulberg, MD, PhD, MPH, Cindy Barnard, MBA, Jane Holl, MD, MPH, Ryan P. Merkow, MD, MS, Anthony D. Yang, MD, on behalf of the Illinois Surgical Quality Improvement Collaborative   +29 more
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Assessing effectiveness and implementation of a perioperative enhanced recovery protocol for children undergoing surgery: study protocol for a prospective, stepped-wedge, cluster, randomized, controlled clinical trial

Trials, 2020
Background Perioperative enhanced recovery protocols (ERPs) have been found to decrease hospital length of stay, in-hospital costs, and complications among adult surgical populations but evidence for pediatric populations is lacking.
Mehul V. Raval, Erin Wymore, Martha-Conley E. Ingram, Yao Tian, Julie K. Johnson, Jane L. Holl   +5 more
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Rapid implementation of virtual clinics due to COVID-19: report and early evaluation of a quality improvement initiative

BMJ Open Quality, 2020
Background The COVID-19 outbreak has placed the National Health Service under significant strain. Social distancing measures were introduced in the UK in March 2020 and virtual consultations (via telephone or video call) were identified as a potential ...
A. Gilbert, Joe C T Billany, R. Adam, Luke Martin, Rebecca Tobin, Shiv Bagdai, Noreen Galvin, Ian Farr, Adam Allain, L. Davies, J. Bateson   +10 more
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