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Health Care Quality Indicators in the Irish Health System

, 2014
  Public reporting of quality indicators promotes the principle of a transparent and accountable health care system that encourages a continuing focus on improving the quality of care it provides. This work brings us a step further in enhancing the quality and safety of our system.
Department of Health (Ireland)
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Evaluating the Effect of Software Quality Characteristics on Health Care Quality Indicators

Journal of Health Management & Informatics, 2015
Introduction: Various types of software are used in health care organizations to manage information and care processes. The quality of software has been an important concern for both health authorities and designers of Health Information Technology ...
Sakineh Aghazadeh, Habibollah Pirnejad, Alvosat Aliev, Alireza Moradkhani   +3 more
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Quality management in surgery: improving clinical and surgical outcomes

Revista do Colégio Brasileiro de Cirurgiões, 2020
Quality is a term used by various specialists, from different perspectives, having as a common point to identify focuses that promote their development in institutional management.
RAPHAELLA PAULA FERREIRA, PHILLIPE ABREU, FLAVIO DANIEL SAAVEDRA TOMASICH, VINICIUS BASSO PRETI   +3 more
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Quality Indicators for Primary Health Care

Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 2015
Data have indicated that countries with a strong system of Primary Health Care (PHC) are more likely to have efficient health systems and better health outcomes than countries that focus strongly on hospital services. The aim of the article was to systematically review implemented quality projects used for evaluation of quality in PHC services.
E. Simou, P. Pliatsika, E. Koutsogeorgou, A. Roumeliotou   +3 more
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Investigating organizational quality improvement systems, patient empowerment, organizational culture, professional involvement and the quality of care in European hospitals: the 'Deepening our Understanding of Quality Improvement in Europe (DUQuE)' project. [PDF]

, 2010
BACKGROUND: Hospitals in European countries apply a wide range of quality improvement strategies. Knowledge of the effectiveness of these strategies, implemented as part of an overall hospital quality improvement system, is limited.
Andrew Thompson, Klazinga, Niek, Arah Onyebuchi A, Suñol, Rosa, Arah, O.A., Groene Oliver, Klazinga Niek, Charles Bruneau, Thompson, Andrew, Cordula Wagner, Klazinga, N., Groene, O., Wagner, C., Wagner, Cordula, Suñol Rosa, Arah, Onyebuchi A.., Onyebuchi A Arah, Arah, O. A., Thompson Andrew, Rosa Suñol, Deepening our Understanding of Quality Improvement in Europe Res, Sunol, R., Arah, Onyebuchi A, ?, ?, Niek Klazinga, null null, Oliver Groene, Bruneau, Charles, Wagner Cordula, Bruneau Charles, Arah, Onyebuchi A., Groene, Oliver, Suñol Sala, Rosa, Bruneau, C., Thompson, A.   +34 more
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A conceptual framework for the OECD Health Care Quality Indicators Project [PDF]

International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 2006
The Health Care Quality Indicator (HCQI) Project of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which is aimed at developing a set of indicators for comparing the quality of health care across OECD member countries, requires a balanced conceptual framework that outlines the main concepts and domains of performance that should be ...
Arah, OA, Westert, GP, Hurst, J, Klazinga, NS   +3 more
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Quality indicators of professional practice of nurses

Millenium, 2021
Introduction: Quality in health is one of the key requirements that clients demand. To improve their practice nurses use quality indicators as an important strategy for assessment and changes in care.
Joana Vieira, Margarida Reis Santos, Regina Pires, Filipe Pereira   +3 more
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Health Care Quality Indicators Project [PDF]

OECD Health Working Papers, 2009
This paper reports on the progress in the research and development of the set of patient safety indicators developed by the Health Care Quality Indicators project. The indicators presented here have been recommended by an expert group for further consideration in international reporting on the quality of care on the key dimension of safety.
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Development and operationalization of a data framework to assess quality of integrated diabetes care in the fragmented data landscape of Belgium

BMC Health Services Research, 2022
Background To assess the quality of integrated diabetes care, we should be able to follow the patient throughout the care path, monitor his/her care process and link them to his/her health outcomes, while simultaneously link this information to the ...
Buffel Veerle, Danhieux Katrien, Philippe Bos, Remmen Roy, Van Olmen Josefien, Wouters Edwin   +5 more
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THE USE OF THE CARE INDICATORS SYSTEM BY NURSE MANAGERS AT A TEACHING HOSPITAL

Cogitare Enfermagem, 2016
The objectives were to get to know the use of a computerized nursing indicator system at a teaching hospital in the city of São Paulo, to identify the applicability of the indicator outcomes and to verify the information return for the ...
Nathalia Barione Zancheta, Rosana Rodrigues Figueira Fogliano, Elena Bohomol, Vanessa Ribeiro Neves, Lúcia Marta Giunta da Silva   +4 more
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