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Development of indicators to assess quality and patient pathways in interdisciplinary care for patients with 14 ambulatory-care-sensitive conditions in Germany

BMC Health Services Research, 2022
Background In settings like the ambulatory care sector in Germany, where data on the outcomes of interdisciplinary health services provided by multiple office-based physicians are not always readily available, our study aims to develop a set of ...
Wiebke Schüttig, Ronja Flemming, Christiane Höhling Mosler, Verena Leve, Olaf Reddemann, Annemarie Schultz, Emmanuelle Brua, Matthias Brittner, Frank Meyer, Johannes Pollmanns, Johnannes Martin, Thomas Czihal, Dominik von Stillfried, Stefan Wilm, Leonie Sundmacher   +14 more
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HEALTH CARE QUALITY INDICATORS: THE OPINION OF NURSING MANAGERS OF TEACHING HOSPITALS

Cogitare Enfermagem, 2015
Quantitative descriptive study aimed to identify the opinion of nursing managers of teaching hospitals on the relevance of quality indicators in the management of nursing services.
Mariana Angela Rossaneis, Carmen Silvia Gabriel, Maria do Carmo Lourenço Haddad, Marcia Regina Antonietto da Costa Melo, Andrea Bernardes   +4 more
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A pilot qualitative study to explore stakeholder opinions regarding prescribing quality indicators

BMC Health Services Research, 2012
Background Information on prescribing quality of diabetes care is required by health care providers, insurance companies, policy makers, and the public.
Martirosyan Liana, Markhorst Joekie, Denig Petra, Haaijer-Ruskamp Flora M, Braspenning Jozé   +4 more
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Developing mental health-care quality indicators: toward a common framework [PDF]

International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 2012
Inconsistent performance measurement schemes hinder attempts to make international comparisons about mental health-care quality. This report describes a project undertaken by an international collaborative group that aims to develop a common framework of measures that will allow for international comparisons of mental health system performance ...
Carl Erik, Fisher, Brigitta, Spaeth-Rublee, Harold, Alan Pincus   +2 more
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Assessing access barriers to maternal health care: measuring bypassing to identify health centre needs in rural Uganda. [PDF]

, 2009
BACKGROUND: In low income countries, several barriers exist to the use of health services for child delivery, including distance, transportation, informal costs or low perceived quality.
Parkhurst, Justin O, Ssengooba, Freddie
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Surgical capacity assessment in the state of Amazonas using the surgical assessment tool. Cross-sectional study

Revista do Colégio Brasileiro de Cirurgiões, 2022
Objective: Brazil is a country with universal health coverage, yet access to surgery among remote rural populations remains understudied. This study assesses surgical care capacity among hospitals providing care for the rural populations in the Amazonas
JOSÉ EMERSON SOUZA, RODRIGO VAZ FERREIRAI, SAURABH SALUJA, JULIA AMUNDSON, ISABELLE CITRON, PAUL TRUCHE, LINA ROA, KATHRIN ZIMMERMAN, HILLARY E JENNY, ALEXIS N BOWDER, PEDRO HENRIQUE DA SILVA GOMES, JESSICA DE OLIVEIRA CORREIA, JOHN MEARA, NIVALDO ALONSO   +13 more
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Community health workers and stand-alone or integrated case management of malaria: a systematic literature review. [PDF]

, 2014
A systematic literature review was conducted to assess the effectiveness of strategies to improve community case management (CCM) of malaria. Forty-three studies were included; most (38) reported indicators of community health worker (CHW) performance ...
Buj, Valentina, Kedenge, Sarah, Kim, Julia, Ngongo, Ngashi, Schellenberg, David, Sharkey, Alyssa, Smith Paintain, Lucy, Webster, Jayne, Willey, Barbara   +8 more
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Adequacy of prenatal care in Primary Care in a municipality of northeastern Brazil [PDF]

Cadernos de Saúde Coletiva
Background: Prenatal care is an essential component of maternal and child health promotion, and, when it is improperly offered, it can result in adverse maternal and perinatal conditions.
Weslla Karla Albuquerque Silva de Paula, Wellingta Larissa Ribeiro Dias, Daniela Barbosa de Lima Nascimento, Paulo Heinrich Soares Bomtempo, Amanda Gabriela Neves Gomes, Letícia Gabriela Santos Soares de Santana, Cleide Aparecida de Freitas, Maria Valéria Gorayeb de Carvalho   +7 more
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Contributions to the ontology of aging, the sensitive indicators of rehabilitation nursing care, in terms of self-care, in people with respiratory disorders [PDF]

, 2018
With the increase in the average life expectancy, the appearance of chronic diseases and, in particular, in the respiratory forum and its disadvantages in the autonomy and self-care of patients, brought an important paradigm for health care and, in ...
Correia, J., Fonseca, C., Garcia-Alonso, J. M., Lopes, M. J., Marques, C., Mendes, D., Mendes, F., Murillo, J. M.   +7 more
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Measuring and improving the quality of tuberculosis care: A framework and implications from the Lancet Global Health Commission

Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases, 2019
In this article, we describe the framework of the Lancet Global Health Commission on High Quality Health Systems, propose new and undermeasured indicators of TB care quality, and discuss implications of the Commission's key conclusions for measuring and ...
Catherine Arsenault, Sanam Roder-DeWan, Margaret E. Kruk   +2 more
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