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OECD Health Care Quality Indicators Project
, 2010 The OECD Health Care Quality Indicators Project (HCQI) builds on initial work by the Commonwealth Fund and Nordic Council of Ministers. The long-term goal is to develop and implement a set of quality indicators at the international level that could ultimately be used to produce benchmarks for countries.
Stevanovic, Vladimir +5 more
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The Quality of Health Care Providers [PDF]
Obtaining better information on the quality of health care providers is one of the most pressing issues in health policy today. In this paper we (1) develop a new method for measuring quality of care that overcomes the key limitations of available ...
Douglas Staiger, Mark McClellan
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Reciprocal control of viral infection and phosphoinositide dynamics
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Phosphoinositides, although scarce, regulate key cellular processes, including membrane dynamics and signaling. Viruses exploit these lipids to support their entry, replication, assembly, and egress. The central role of phosphoinositides in infection highlights phosphoinositide metabolism as a promising antiviral target.
Marie Déborah Bancilhon, Bruno Mesmin
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Developing Iranian primary health care quality framework: a national study
BMC Public Health, 2019 Background Providing comprehensive and high-quality services is one of the most important goals of the health systems and a basic principle for Universal Health Coverage (UHC).
Ramin Rezapour +4 more
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Fluorescent probes allow dynamic visualization of phosphoinositides in living cells (left), whereas mass spectrometry provides high‐sensitivity, isomer‐resolved quantitation (right). Their synergistic use captures complementary aspects of lipid signaling. This review illustrates how these approaches reveal the spatiotemporal regulation and quantitative
Hiroaki Kajiho +3 more
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An Environmental Scan of Canadian Quality Metrics for Patients on In-Center Hemodialysis
Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease, 2020 Background: Quality metrics or indicators help guide quality improvement work by reporting on measurable aspects of health care upon which improvement efforts can focus.
Daniel Blum +5 more
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Do We Want to Measure the Quality of Care for Vulnerable Older People? The ACOVE Approach. Syracuse Seminar on Aging. [PDF]
There's limited information available about measuring the quality of medical care that is targeted to the needs of older patients. And there's very limited pressure on the system to provide high quality geriatric care. Why is that?
Neil S. Wenger
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By dawn or dusk—how circadian timing rewrites bacterial infection outcomes
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.The circadian clock shapes immune function, yet its influence on infection outcomes is only beginning to be understood. This review highlights how circadian timing alters host responses to the bacterial pathogens Salmonella enterica, Listeria monocytogenes, and Streptococcus pneumoniae revealing that the effectiveness of immune defense depends not only
Devons Mo +2 more
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[Health care model and quality indicators: perceptions of primary health care professionals].
Cadernos de saude publica, 2011 This study aimed to verify the adequacy of family health teams according to the quality standards set by the Brazilian Ministry of Health and the correlation with health care activities, according to the health professionals themselves. The Evaluation for Quality Improvement (EQI) instrument was used in joint interviews with physicians, nurses, and ...
José Mendes da, Silva +1 more
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