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Agreement Between HEDIS Performance Assessments in the VA and Medicare Advantage: Is Quality in the Eye of the Beholder? [PDF]

, 2016
Medicare Advantage (MA) plans and the Veterans Affairs (VA) health care system assess quality of care using standardized Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) performance measures. Little is known, however, about the relative accuracy
Charlton, Mary, Kizer, Kenneth, Trivedi, Amal, Wilson, Ira   +3 more
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Personalized Selumetinib Dosing in Pediatric Neurofibromatosis Type 1: Insights From a Pilot Therapeutic Drug Monitoring Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate selumetinib exposure using therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) in pediatric patients with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) and plexiform neurofibromas (PN), assess interpatient pharmacokinetic variability, and explore the relationship between drug exposure, clinical response, and adverse effects.
Janka Kovács, Zoltán Köllő, Balázs Gellért Karvaly, Mahmoud Obeidat, Rita Nagy, Péter Hegyi, Brigitta Teutsch, Eszter Tuboly, Miklós Garami   +8 more
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Time to have a paradigm shift in health care quality measurement

Journal of the Formosan Medical Association, 2014
Quality measurement is important to stakeholders in providing valid information for improvement, and has been associated with hospital accreditation in most countries.
Kuan-Yu Hung, Jih-Shuin Jerng
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Development and validation of a new set of indicators to assess the quality of maternal and child nutritional care at the primary care

Frontiers in Medicine, 2022
IntroductionMaternal and child malnutrition is a worldwide public health problem with short, medium, and long-term adverse consequences for both mother and child.
Monica Ancira-Moreno, Isabel Omaña-Guzmán, Arturo Cuauhtémoc Bautista-Morales, Omar Acosta-Ruiz, Sonia Hernández Cordero, Soraya Burrola-Méndez, Mireya Vilar-Compte, Eric Monterrubio Flores, Martha Kaufer-Horwitz, Cecilia Pérez Navarro, Cinthya Muñoz-Manrique, Mónica Mazariegos, Alejandra Trejo-Domínguez, Belen Sánchez Muzquiz, Ariana Cajero, Mauro Brero, Matthias Sachse, Fernanda Cobo Armijo   +17 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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Adherence to Protocol Recommendations for Children With Wilms Tumour in Two Consecutive Studies in the United Kingdom and Ireland—Does Variation Matter?

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background and Aims Wilms tumour (WT) has excellent event‐free and overall survival (OS). However, small differences exist between countries participating in the same international study. This led us to examine variation in adherence to protocol recommendations as a potential contributing factor.
Suzanne Tugnait, R. Al‐Saadi, A. Lopez‐Cortes, K. Dzhuma, M. Oostveen, J. Brok, S. Irtan, M. Weeks, J. Bate, S. Baker, R. Williams, M. Powis, D. Saunders, O. Olsen, T. Watson, S. Shelmerdine, S. Vaidya, L. Howell, C. Duncan, G. M. Vujanic, C. Stiller, G. P. Balchin, T. Chowdhury, K. Pritchard‐Jones   +23 more
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An Environmental Scan and Evaluation of Quality Indicators Across Canadian Kidney Transplant Centers

Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease, 2021
Background: Kidney transplantation is the optimal treatment for an individual requiring kidney replacement therapy, resulting in improved survival and quality of life while costing the health care system less than maintenance dialysis.
Tamara Glavinovic, Amanda J. Vinson, Samuel A. Silver, Seychelle Yohanna   +3 more
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Care Consistency With Documented Care Preferences: Methodologic Considerations for Implementing the “Measuring What Matters” Quality Indicator [PDF]

, 2016
A basic tenet of palliative care is discerning patient treatment preferences and then honoring these preferences, reflected by the inclusion of “Care Consistency With Documented Care Preferences” as one of 10 “Measuring What Matters quality” indicators ...
Hickman, Susan E., Torke, Alexia M., Unroe, Kathleen T.   +2 more
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Sirolimus for Extracranial Arteriovenous Malformations: A Scoping Review of the Evidence in Syndromic and Non‐Syndromic Cases

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) are rare, high‐flow, vascular anomalies that can occur either sporadically or as part of a genetic syndrome. AVMs can progress with serious morbidity and even mortality if left unchecked. Sirolimus is an mTOR inhibitor that is effective in low‐flow vascular malformations; however, its role in AVMs is unclear.
Will Swansson, Ingrid Winship, Gary Hammerschlag, Laura Scardamaglia   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Study of the Impact of the ACA Implementation in Kentucky - Quarterly Snapshot: January - March 2015 [PDF]

, 2015
The Study of the Impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on Health Coverage, Access, Quality, Cost, and Outcomes in Kentucky (Study), funded by the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky, is a three-year mixed methods study analyzing the key effects of the ...

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