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Leadership in quality improvement
Current Problems in Pediatric and Adolescent Health Care, 2018This article presents thoughts from a quality improvement team leader in a small institution application of methodology from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Successful leadership in quality improvement depends on structural supports in building learning systems as well as a supportive culture. Many resources can be used in quality improvement
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Surgical Quality Improvement: Local Quality Improvement
2016The 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 ...
Elizabeth C. Wick, Ira L. Leeds
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A review of active filters for power quality improvement
IEEE transactions on industrial electronics (1982. Print), 1999Active filtering of electric power has now become a mature technology for harmonic and reactive power compensation in two-wire (single phase), three-wire (three phase without neutral), and four-wire (three phase with neutral) AC power networks with ...
Bhim Singh, K. Al-haddad, A. Chandra
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Postoperative Delirium as a Target for Surgical Quality Improvement
Annals of Surgery, 2017Objective: To explore hospital-level variation in postoperative delirium using a multi-institutional data source. Background: Postoperative delirium is closely related to serious morbidity, disability, and death in older adults.
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Journal For Healthcare Quality, 1992
Parkview Episcopal Medical Center in Pueblo, CO, has been implementing a continuous quality improvement (CQI)-driven organization since April 1988. Under the leadership of Michael Pugh, the medical center's president and CEO, Parkview has made great progress in this effort. However, there is much more to be accomplished in the years to come.
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Parkview Episcopal Medical Center in Pueblo, CO, has been implementing a continuous quality improvement (CQI)-driven organization since April 1988. Under the leadership of Michael Pugh, the medical center's president and CEO, Parkview has made great progress in this effort. However, there is much more to be accomplished in the years to come.
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Quality Improvement in Germany
The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement, 1997THE GERMAN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM: Recent law has provided for increased competition among public insurers ("sickness funds"). Hospitals are also finding increasing competition as lengths of stay shorten and excess capacity grows. THE EVOLUTION OF QUALITY IMPROVEMENT: Quality improvement in Germany, mostly as quality assurance, has progressed slowly since ...
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Quality Measurement and Improvement
Health Affairs, 1994distributed equitably across all payers and phased out over time. Point-of-service design. HMOs would be required to provide a point-of-service option under the plan. The implied objective is to ease the transition from unlimitedchoice-of-physician plans to plans with more limited choice.
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[Quality improvement in healthcare].
Ugeskrift for laeger, 2009Quality improvement has been an important topic in Danish healthcare for the past 20 years. Quality improvement in Denmark is based on Strategy for Quality Improvement in Health Care. A wide range of nationwide quality improvement projects have been initiated.
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Evaluating Quality Improvement
Pediatrics, 2007The 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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