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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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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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Does quality improvement improve quality? [PDF]

Future Hospital Journal, 2016
Although quality improvement (QI) is frequently advocated as a way of addressing the problems with healthcare, evidence of its effectiveness has remained very mixed. The reasons for this are varied but the growing literature highlights particular challenges. Fidelity in the application of QI methods is often variable.
Dixon-Woods, Mary, Martin, Graham P
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Classification, Processing Procedures, and Market Demand of Chinese Biscuits and the Breeding of Special Wheat for Biscuit Making

Journal of Food Quality, 2022
With the improvement of living standards, consumers’ demand for wheat food is gradually diversified. Biscuit, as a kind of convenience food, becomes a consumer’s leisure snack due to its characteristics such as low processing cost, easy-to-carry and ...
Xin Hu, Lejia Hu, Jing Zheng, Junkang Rong   +3 more
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Low-cost, on-farm intervention to reduce spores in bulk tank raw milk benefits producers, processors, and consumers

Journal of Dairy Science, 2023
: Bacterial spores, which are found in raw milk, can survive harsh processing conditions encountered in dairy manufacturing, including pasteurization and drying.
Rachel L. Evanowski, Sarah I. Murphy, Martin Wiedmann, Nicole H. Martin   +3 more
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