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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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Beyond health system contact: measuring and validating quality of childbirth care indicators in primary level facilities of northern Ethiopia

Reproductive Health, 2020
Background Measurement of quality of health care has been largely overlooked and continues to be a major health system bottleneck in monitoring performance and quality to evaluate progress against defined targets for better decision making.
Haftom Gebrehiwot Weldearegay, Araya Abrha Medhanyie, Hagos Godefay, Alemayehu Bayray Kahsay   +3 more
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Acute care pathway assessed through performance indicators during the COVID-19 pandemic in OECD countries (2020–2021): a scoping review

BMC Emergency Medicine
Background The COVID-19 pandemic severely impacted care for non-COVID patients. Performance indicators to monitor acute care, timely reported and internationally accepted, lacked during the pandemic in OECD countries.
Ana Sofia V. Carvalho, Bente Broekema, Óscar Brito Fernandes, Niek Klazinga, Dionne Kringos   +4 more
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Perfil das Internações por Condições Sensíveis à Atenção Primária subsidiando ações de saúde nas regiões brasileiras

Saúde em Debate
O estudo objetiva analisar dados de Internações por Condições Sensíveis à Atenção Primária nas regiões brasileiras em 2014 por meio de estudo ecológico quantitativo, utilizando dados secundários do Sistema de Informações Hospitalares nas cidades com mais
Francilene Jane Rodrigues Pereira, César Cavalcanti da Silva, Eufrásio de Andrade Lima Neto   +2 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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International Profiles of Health Care Systems, 2012 [PDF]

, 2012
This publication presents overviews of the health care systems of Australia, Canada, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Japan, Iceland, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States.

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Quality systems in health care: A sociotechnical approach [PDF]

, 2003
In this paper, we explore a sociotechnical approach to construct quality systems as an alternative to the traditional, ISO orientated approach. A sociotechnical approach is characterised as bottom-up, incremental, information technology facilitated and ...
Harteloh, P.P.M. (Peter)
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Sickle Cell Disease Is an Inherent Risk for Asthma in a Sibling Comparison Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Sickle cell disease (SCD) and asthma share a complex relationship. Although estimates vary, asthma prevalence in children with SCD is believed to be comparable to or higher than the general population. Determining whether SCD confers an increased risk for asthma remains challenging due to overlapping symptoms and the ...
Suhei C. Zuleta De Bernardis, Okeleji Olayinka, Mariam Z. Quraishi, Lakshmi V. Srivaths, Deborah L. Brown, Neethu M. Menon, Ricardo A. Mosquera, Ashwin P. Patel, James M. Stark, Aravind Yadav   +9 more
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ASSESSMENT OF SATISFACTION AMONG SURGICAL CLIENTS OF TEACHING HOSPITALS: ANALYSIS OF TANGIBILITY

Cogitare Enfermagem, 2017
The present study aimed to assess the degree of satisfactedion of surgical clients of teaching hospitals in Uberaba/Minas Gerais, regarding the tangibility dimension.
Maria Paula Custódio Silva, Joyce Mara Gabriel Duarte, Nara dos Santos Costa, Andréia Silva Dutra Tirones, Ana Lúcia de Assis Simões   +4 more
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Eficiência versus qualidade no serviço nacional de saúde: metodologias de avaliação.

Acta Médica Portuguesa, 2008
To proceed to the evaluation of the efficiency and quality in the NHS, based in methodologies of evaluation of management, indicators of benchmarking and indicators of process and outcome.
Maria do Rosário Giraldes
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