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Integrated quality assessment for diabetes care in Portuguese primary health care using prevention quality indicators

Primary Care Diabetes, 2021
This study evaluates the prevention quality indicators (PQI) for Diabetes Mellitus (DM) in Portugal using contemporary data and explores their variability according to Primary Health Care (PHC) quality indicators.We conducted a retrospective observational analysis of secondary data comprising Portuguese PHC indicators by health centres group (ACES) and
A. Ramalho, P. Castro, M. Lobo, J. Souza, P. Santos, A. Freitas   +5 more
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Negative Indicators of Quality of Reproductive Health Care

Journal of Health Management, 1999
Rates offour adverse outcomes, namely, stillbirths, congenital anomalies, ectopic preg nancies and caesarean births, in maternity hospitals of Jaipur have been studied. Data of the early 1990s and the late 1990s are evaluated. Two large public maternity (teach ing) hospitals, 12 government-run small public maternity hospitals and 10 private fee- for ...
S.G. Kabra, Rajeshwari Gupta, Sunita Paliwal   +2 more
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Quality evaluation and indicator comparison in health care

The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 2001
AbstractBy 2005 all healthcare organizations in Europe will be required to take part in a quality evaluation scheme and to collect data about the quality of their service. Hospitals and doctors will need to prove they are safe—quality is no longer assumed. These were the predictions of a recent workshop of Nordic quality experts.
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Quality Health Care in Indian Setup: An ENT OPD Based Approach for Quality Health Care Indicators

2021
Background: Doctor-patient relationships are having a difficult time in this period, particularly in India. It is exemplified by the rising number of lawsuits and acts of violence against doctors. This introduces a patient-centered approach, as well as patient happiness, and leads to conceptions of quality health care.
Himanshu Joshi, Satyanjaya Sahoo, Vikas Kumar   +2 more
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Patient Reported Outcomes as Indicators of Pediatric Health Care Quality

Academic Pediatrics, 2014
Health care reform has increased demand for pediatric health care quality evaluations, particularly those that assess the impact of care on patient and population health outcomes. Many of today's most common childhood conditions are characterized by symptoms, behaviors, and functional limitations that are best assessed as patient reported outcomes ...
Katherine B, Bevans, JeanHee, Moon, Adam C, Carle, Constance A, Mara, Jin-Shei, Lai, Lindsay, DiMarco, Nicole, Muller, Donna, Woods   +7 more
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The Australian Development of National Quality Indicators in Health Care

The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement, 1993
The Australian Council on Healthcare Standards (ACHS) conducts a voluntary program of health facility accreditation modeled along the lines of the Joint Commission. To increase clinician involvement in the accreditation process and in quality assurance programs and to enable some assessment of the outcome of care in a facility at the time of survey ...
B T, Collopy, C, Balding
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[Comprehensive quality indicators for health care services].

Lakartidningen, 2002
On behalf of the Swedish government, the National Board of Health and Welfare recently issued a recommended set of 60 quality indicators for broad monitoring of the quality of national health care. This initiative is in concordance with similar international initiatives.
Magna, Andreen Sachs, Elvar, Theodorsson
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Health-related quality of life: an indicator of quality of care?

Quality of Life Research, 1997
There is an increasing interest in the use of outcome indicators to monitor the quality of care. Traditionally, outcome indicators have been based mainly on biological indicators reflecting death or disease. Now that various instruments for health status measurement have become available, questions have been raised as to the potential application of ...
Treurniet, H. F., Essink-Bot, M. L., Mackenbach, J. P., van der Maas, P. J.   +3 more
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[Monitoring quality of health care using indicators].

Ugeskrift for laeger, 1999
In a modern health care system continuing measurement and monitoring of relevant clinical data comprise the base of documentation for the quality of care. Internationally there has been increasing focus on monitoring and measuring the quality of care using principals from clinical epidemiology, including quality monitoring using clinical indicators ...
J, Mainz, J, Kjaergaard, J L, Knudsen
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[Quality Indicators of Primary Health Care Facilities in Austria].

Gesundheitswesen (Bundesverband der Arzte des Offentlichen Gesundheitsdienstes (Germany)), 2019
The strengthening of primary health care is one major goal of the current national health reform in Austria. In this context, a new interdisciplinary concept was developed in 2014 that defines structures and requirements for future primary health care facilities.The aim of this project was the development of quality indicators for the evaluation of the
Thomas, Semlitsch, Muna, Abuzahra, Florian, Stigler, Klaus, Jeitler, Nicole, Posch, Andrea, Siebenhofer   +5 more
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