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Continuous Quality Improvement

Journal of Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing, 1992
heard the cannonk report or seen the handbills announcing the new order.." The Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) announced its Agenda for Change in 1986, and has stated that the "philosophical context" for the Agenda for Change is set by the theories of Continual Quality Improvement (CQI).1 During the past six ...
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Quality improvement

Nursing management
NURSING IS A DEMANDING profession often associated with high levels of stress due to heavy work-loads, long hours, and emotional strain. Stress among nurses may lead to burnout, reduce job satisfaction, and compromise patient care.
Rachel A. Woods, Karen Baur, M. Wendler
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Collaborative quality improvement

Current Opinion in Urology, 2017
Quality improvement collaboratives were developed in many medical and surgical disciplines with the goal of measuring and improving the quality of care provided to patients. The aim of this review is to provide an overview of surgical quality improvement collaboratives, and in particular those aimed at improving urological care.Quality improvement ...
Amy N, Luckenbaugh   +2 more
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Quality improvement

Nursing Management, 2014
Ready to Lead at tinyurl.com/pd9mmuy is a collection of a short series of articles by senior improvement manager at Healthcare Improvement Scotland Steven Wilson. The collection is aimed at drawing out some of the key behaviours, skills and attributes necessary for successful quality improvement leadership.
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Quality improvement

British Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2012
Quality improvement in health care is a structured analysis of a health-care system with a view to improving its performance. This review describes the history of quality improvement and its growing application in health care. It gives further information for doctors wanting to participate.
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Improving resuscitation quality

Resuscitation, 2013
Five decades on from the first descriptions of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) many hundreds of thousands of lives have undoubtedly been saved through widespread adoption of CPR. However for every individual life saved between six and fifty other cardiac arrest victims do not survive.1–3 The Declaration of the European Parliament of 14 June 2012 to
Gavin D, Perkins   +2 more
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Evaluating Quality Improvement

Pediatrics, 2007
The bloom is off the rose, at least partially. From the time they emerged in the 1940s as a substantial advance over available research designs, randomized, controlled trials (RCTs) quickly became the gold standard for testing medical interventions. However, it has long been acknowledged that for some interventions, particularly programs with multiple ...
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Surgical Quality Improvement: Local Quality Improvement

2016
The quality movement has dramatically changed both the practice and perception of healthcare over the last 30 years. In surgery, the unique details of any particular patient’s case may have made comparative quality reporting and benchmarking more challenging, but these obstacles should not let the surgical care of patients to be omitted from quality ...
Ira L. Leeds, Elizabeth C. Wick
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Teaching Quality Improvement

Journal of Nursing Education, 2010
Practicing nurses are required to engage in quality improvement work as a part of their clinical practice, but few undergraduate nursing education programs offer course work and applied experience in this area. This article presents a description of class content and teaching strategies, assignments, and evaluation strategies designed to achieve the ...
Marry Ellen, Murray   +3 more
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Trauma Quality Improvement

Critical Care Clinics, 2017
Trauma centers and a third-party payer within Michigan built a regional collaborative quality initiative. Hallmarks of the collaborative are standardized data collection, annual data validation visits, face-to-face collaborative meetings, and dedication to performance improvement.
Mark R, Hemmila, Jill L, Jakubus
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