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Bone & Joint Open, 2022 Data of high quality are critical for the meaningful interpretation of registry information. The National Joint Registry (NJR) was established in 2002 as the result of an unexpectedly high failure rate of a cemented total hip arthroplasty.
Christopher Boulton +6 more
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The Quality Improvement Strategy [PDF]
Health Care Management Review, 1994 To prepare for managed competition, many hospitals now focus on service quality as a means to improve their competitive position. To aid in decisions about where best to direct limited resources, managers need physician feedback about how the hospital's services compare with its competitors' services (competitive advantage) and about the degree to ...
Lawton R. Burns, Lee Roy Beach
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BJPsych Open, 2020 BackgroundQuestions have been raised regarding differences in the standards of care that patients receive when they are admitted to or discharged from in-patient units at weekends.AimsTo compare the quality of care received by patients with anxiety and ...
Ryan Williams +7 more
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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. QI can represent a valuable opportunity for individuals to be involved in leading and delivering change, from improving individual patient care to transforming services across complex health and ...
Adam Backhouse, Fatai Ogunlayi
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Streamlining workflows and redesigning job roles in the theatre sterile surgical unit
BMJ Open Quality, 2019 The theatre sterile surgical unit (TSSU) is an essential core to support the operating theatres in National University Hospital. Surgical instruments and supplies are processed, packaged and sterilised safe for surgical procedures.
Brandon Lum +5 more
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Creating a Workforce Analytics Action Plan [PDF]
, 2021 An action plan can be a useful tool for implementing workforce analytics, especially if there are multiple people involved in the process. This resource provides some general advice on action planning, with specific examples for advancing the use of ...
Quality Improvement Center for Workforce Development
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Test-Case Quality -- Understanding Practitioners' Perspectives [PDF]
, 2023 Background: Test-case quality has always been one of the major concerns in software testing. To improve test-case quality, it is important to better understand how practitioners perceive the quality of test-cases. Objective: Motivated by that need, we investigated how practitioners define test-case quality and which aspects of test-cases are important ...
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Competency-Based Personnel Selection Oklahoma - Summary [PDF]
, 2023 Oklahoma Department of Human Services (OKDHS) is a state-operated child welfare system, but hiring has always been done locally. The agency is divided into five field regions serving 27 districts and 77 counties.
Quality Improvement Center for Workforce Development
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Frontline Job Redesign Louisiana - Key Findings [PDF]
, 2023 Background In 2017, the QIC-WD began working with the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS). At that time DCFS had an average turnover rate of 24% across the state with one region having a rate of 51% and another with a low of 8%. A
Quality Improvement Center for Workforce Development
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Quality Improvement in Critical Care: Selection and Development of Quality Indicators
Canadian Respiratory Journal, 2016 Background. Caring for critically ill patients is complex and resource intensive. An approach to monitor and compare the function of different intensive care units (ICUs) is needed to optimize outcomes for patients and the health system as a whole ...
Carla A. Chrusch +2 more
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