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Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators to Improve Health Care Quality

The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, 2005
In summary, the AHRQ QIs are a set of readily available programs that can be downloaded without charge from the AHRQ Web site. The methodology is completely open and accessible to all users. The QI software can be applied to hospital administrative data that is available within individual institutions or from state data organizations and hospital ...
Anne, Elixhauser   +2 more
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Health Care Quality Indicators Project

OECD Health Working Papers, 2006
The OECD Health Care Quality Indicator (HCQI) Project was started in 2001. The long-term objective of the HCQI Project is to develop a set of indicators that can be used to raise questions for further investigation concerning quality of health care across countries.
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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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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.   +3 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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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   +2 more
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