The quality of preventive and diagnostic medical care: why do southern states underperform? [PDF]
As the cost of health care increases rapidly, the health care industry has turned its attention to methods of cost containment. However, concern exists that the drive to contain costs could lead to compromises in the quality of medical care. One practice
Brian S. Armour, M. Melinda Pitts
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Criteria and practical guidance for determination of brain death in adults (2nd edition)
Chinese Medical Journal, 2019 Peng Lyu +1 more
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UK Biobank data demonstrate long-term exposure to floods is a risk factor for incident dementia
Communications MedicineBackground Flooding has emerged as the most prevalent natural disaster, impacting billions of individuals worldwide. However, the long-term effects of flooding exposure on dementia remain unclear.
Yao Wu +12 more
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First Class in Learning -- First Class in Life: How Washington's Early Childhood Education Career and Wage Ladder Delivers First-Class Care [PDF]
, 2010 High-quality early learning cannot be achieved or sustained when the bonds between teacher and child are broken because teachers leave their jobs to gain higher paid employment in order to support their own families.
Gary Burris, Hannah Lidman, John Burbank
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Healthcare Hot Spotting: Variation in Quality and Resource Use In California [PDF]
, 2015 This Issue Brief presents analyses of data available through the HEDIS by Geography tool, accessible at https://hbg.iha.org. The tool allows users to display and compare measures of both quality of care and use of health care resources throughout ...
Dolores Yanagihara +2 more
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Evaluating the quality of medical care.
The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly, 1966 A. Donabedian
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Models for providing improved care in residential care homes: a thematic literature review [PDF]
This Annotated Bibliography is one output from a review of the available research evidence to support improved care in residential care homes as the needs of older people intensify. Key findings The review identified extremely little published evidence
Clay, Diane +4 more
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The Mental Health Workforce: A Primer [PDF]
, 2018 [Excerpt] Congress has held hearings and some Members have introduced legislation addressing the interrelated topics of the quality of mental health care, access to mental health care, and the cost of mental health care.
Heisler, Elayne J
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Clinical indicators of quality for Australian residential aged care facilities : establishing reliability, validity, and quality thresholds [PDF]
, 2010 Background: In response to the need for more comprehensive quality assessment within Australian residential aged care facilities, the Clinical Care Indicator (CCI) Tool was developed to collect outcome data as a means of making inferences about quality ...
O'Reilly, Maria Therese
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Montefiore Medical Center: Integrated Care Delivery for Vulnerable Populations [PDF]
, 2010 Describes a system of hospitals and community- and school-based clinics tailored to low-income patients through systemwide strategies, high-quality specialty and hospital care, and integrated care delivery via care management and information ...
Deborah Chase
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