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Health Care User Perspectives on Constructing, Contextualizing, and Co-Producing "Quality of Care" [PDF]

, 2015
Most of the research on health care user “quality of care” perspectives seeks discrete and measurable indicators to advance quality improvement (QI) goals.
Agins, B, Baim-Lance, A, Schlefer, M, Tietz, D   +3 more
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Decision-making for delivery location and quality of care among slum-dwellers: a qualitative study in Uttar Pradesh, India. [PDF]

, 2016
BackgroundIn 2013, the Government of India launched the National Urban Health Mission (NUHM) in order to better address the health needs of urban populations, including the nearly 100 million living in slums.
Barge, Sandhya, Beyeler, Naomi, Diamond-Smith, Nadia, Sudhinaraset, May   +3 more
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Laboratory data as a quality indicator of health-care-associated infections in England. [PDF]

, 2018
Routine diagnostic laboratory results, e.g. numbers of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteraemias, have been used as health-care-associated infection quality indicators for decades. The English health-care-associated infection quality
Jeyaratnam, D, Planche, T
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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
doaj   +1 more source

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, 2011 [PDF]

, 2011
This publication presents overviews of the health care systems of Australia, Canada, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States. Each overview covers health insurance,

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European Standard Clinical Practice Guideline and EXPeRT Recommendations for the Diagnosis and Management of Gastroenteropancreatic Neuroendocrine Neoplasms in Children and Adolescents

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Pediatric gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (GEP‐NENs) are extremely rare and clinically heterogeneous. Management has largely been extrapolated from adult practice. This European Standard Clinical Practice Guideline (ESCP), developed by the EXPeRT network in collaboration with adult NEN experts, provides (adult) evidence ...
Michaela Kuhlen, Calogero Virgone, Antje Redlich, Michael Abele, Ricardo Lopez‐Almaraz, Tal Ben‐Ami, Ewa Bien, Gianni Bisogno, Maja Mazic Cesen, Andrea Ferrari, Malgorzata A. Krawczyk, Yves Reguerre, Dominik T. Schneider, Ines B. Brecht, Charlotte Rigaud, Bilgehan Yalcin, Rainer Claus, Christian Vokuhl, Constantin Lapa, Jörg Fuchs, Segolene Hescot, Thomas Walter, Julien Hadoux, Daniel Orbach   +23 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
doaj   +1 more source

Evidence on the Cost and Cost-effectiveness of Palliative Care: A Literature Review [PDF]

, 2013
In the context of limited resources, evidence on costs and cost-effectiveness of alternative methods of delivering health-care services is increasingly important to facilitate appropriate resource allocation.
Aoife Brick, Charles Normand, Samantha Smith, Sinéad O'Hara   +3 more
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