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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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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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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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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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Assessment of variation in 30‐day mortality following cancer surgeries among older adults across US hospitals

Cancer Medicine, 2020
Background While public reporting of surgical outcomes for noncancer conditions is common, cancer surgeries have generally been excluded. This is true despite numerous studies showing outcomes to differ between hospitals based on their characteristics ...
Allison Lipitz‐Snyderman, Jessica A. Lavery, Peter B. Bach, Diane G. Li, Annie Yang, Vivian E. Strong, Ashley Russo, Katherine S. Panageas   +7 more
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The OECD Health Care Quality Indicators Project: history and background [PDF]

International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 2006
To describe the background, history, and approach of the OECD Health Care Quality Indicators (HCQI) Project, an initiative to implement quality measures for international benchmarking of medical care at the health system level.The participating countries and international organizations selected five priority areas (cardiac care, diabetes, mental health,
Soeren, Mattke, Arnold M, Epstein, Sheila, Leatherman   +2 more
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Using indicators to quantify the potential to improve the quality of health care [PDF]

International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 2004
Although clinical indicators allow individual providers to monitor and improve their own performance and quality of care, another important role for the indicators is to provide comparative information across all providers. We show that the 'league table' approach is ineffective, and provide an alternative method that uses the comparative rates to ...
Gibberd, Robert, Hancock, Stephen, Howley, Peter, Richards, Kay   +3 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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Perinatal quality indicators: yardsticks for quality of care, measures of population health

European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, 2013
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unknown ( host institution ), Kirby, Russell S. ( author )   +1 more
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Reliability of the interRAI suite of assessment instruments: a 12-country study of an integrated health information system [PDF]

, 2008
Background A multi-domain suite of instruments has been developed by the interRAI research collaborative to support assessment and care planning in mental health, aged care and disability services.
Bjorkgren, M., Gray Len, Gunnar Ljunggren, Morris John N, Finne-Soveri, H., Ljunggren Gunnar, Gray, L., Gilgen Reudi, Björkgren Magnus, Hirdes, J.P., Len Gray, Dinnus HM Frijters, Morris, J.N., John P Hirdes, Reudi Gilgen, Frijters, D.H.M., Ljunggren, G., Finne Soveri Harriet, Magnus Björkgren, John N Morris, Gilgen, R., Hirdes John P, Frijters Dinnus HM, Harriet Finne Soveri   +23 more
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