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Quality improvement into practice [PDF]

BMJ, 2020
### What you need to know The benefits to front line clinicians of participating in quality improvement (QI) activity are promoted in many health systems.
A. Backhouse, Fatai Ogunlayi
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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.
M. Dixon-Woods, G. Martin
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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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Microbial Fermentation and Its Role in Quality Improvement of Fermented Foods

, 2020
Fermentation processes in foods often lead to changes in nutritional and biochemical quality relative to the starting ingredients. Fermented foods comprise very complex ecosystems consisting of enzymes from raw ingredients that interact with the ...
Ranjana Sharma, Prakrati Garg, Pradeep Kumar, S. Bhatia, S. Kulshrestha   +4 more
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How and under what circumstances do quality improvement collaboratives lead to better outcomes? A systematic review

Implementation Science, 2020
Background Quality improvement collaboratives are widely used to improve health care in both high-income and low and middle-income settings. Teams from multiple health facilities share learning on a given topic and apply a structured cycle of change ...
Karen Zamboni, U. Baker, Mukta Tyagi, J. Schellenberg, Zelee Hill, C. Hanson   +5 more
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Defining quality and quality improvement [PDF]

Clinical Medicine, 2010
Within the NHS the introduction of a statutory duty of quality in 1999 followed by clinical governance, national standards and regulatory frameworks have represented major steps towards delivering good quality healthcare. Most recently, government policy has shifted its focus away from targets and activity towards patient experience and outcomes.
Jane Ingham, Susan Went, Michael Cheshire, Stephen R. Atkinson   +3 more
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From precision medicine to precision care: Choosing and using precision medicine in the context of multimorbidity

Cambridge Prisms: Precision Medicine, 2023
Rapid advances in precision medicine promise dramatic reductions in morbidity and mortality for a growing array of conditions. To realize the benefits of precision medicine and minimize harm, it is necessary to address real-world challenges encountered ...
Arlene S. Bierman, Bridget T. Burke, Leeann N. Comfort, Maya Gerstein, Nora M. Mueller, Craig A. Umscheid   +5 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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Development of a risk assessment model to predict the occurrence of late blowing defect in Gouda cheese and evaluate potential intervention strategies

Journal of Dairy Science, 2022
: Late blowing defect (LBD) is an important spoilage issue in semi-hard cheese, with the outgrowth of Clostridium tyrobutyricum spores during cheese aging considered to be the primary cause.
C. Qian, N.H. Martin, M. Wiedmann, A. Trmčić   +3 more
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The influence of contextual factors on healthcare quality improvement initiatives: a realist review

Systematic Reviews, 2020
Background Recognising the influence of context and the context-sensitive nature of quality improvement (QI) interventions is crucial to implementing effective improvements and successfully replicating them in new settings, yet context is still poorly ...
Emma Coles, Julie Anderson, M. Maxwell, F. Harris, Nicola M. Gray, Gill Milner, S. MacGillivray   +6 more
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