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Quality of child health care in the family health strategy [PDF]

, 2014
OBJECTIVE: to verify the quality of child health care in the Family Health Strategy (FHS) in a state capital of Northeastern Brazil. METHODS: a descriptive study using a quantitative approach was carried out in 2010 with 66 primary care (PC) teams ...
Campos Carlos Eduardo Aguilera, Demarzo Marcelo Marcos Piva, Miranda Cláudio Torres de, Ponnet Liz, Sales Maria Lucélia da Hora   +4 more
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Measuring implementation fidelity in a cluster-randomized pragmatic trial: development and use of a quantitative multi-component approach

Trials, 2022
Background In pragmatic trials, on-site partners, rather than researchers, lead intervention delivery, which may result in implementation variation. There is a need to quantitatively measure this variation.
Miranda B. Olson, Ellen M. McCreedy, Rosa R. Baier, Renée R. Shield, Esme E. Zediker, Rebecca Uth, Kali S. Thomas, Vincent Mor, Roee Gutman, James L. Rudolph   +9 more
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Using National Measures of Patients' Perceptions of Health Care to Design and Debrief Clinical Simulations [PDF]

, 2017
This article describes an innovative approach to using national measures of patients' perspectives of quality health care. Nurses from a regional simulation consortium designed and executed a simulation using the Hospital Consumer Assessment of ...
Bartlett Ellis, Rebecca J., Eisert, Shelly L., Geers, Jennifer W., Werskey, Karen L.   +3 more
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Guideline appraisal with AGREE II: online survey of the potential influence of AGREE II items on overall assessment of guideline quality and recommendation for use

BMC Health Services Research, 2018
Background The AGREE II instrument is the most commonly used guideline appraisal tool. It includes 23 appraisal criteria (items) organized within six domains.
Wiebke Hoffmann-Eßer, Ulrich Siering, Edmund A. M. Neugebauer, Anne Catharina Brockhaus, Natalie McGauran, Michaela Eikermann   +5 more
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A birth cohort study in the Middle East: the Qatari birth cohort study (QBiC) phase I

BMC Public Health, 2017
Background The latest scientific reports raise concerns about the rapidly increasing burden of chronic diseases in the state of Qatar. Pregnant Qatari women often confront complications during pregnancy including gestational diabetes, hypertension ...
Eman Sadoun, Vasiliki Leventakou, Maribel Casas, Heba Fawzy Ahmed, Manolis Kogevinas, Eleni Fthenou   +5 more
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Assessing Community Quality of Health Care [PDF]

Health Services Research, 2015
ObjectiveTo determine the agreement of measures of care in different settings—hospitals, nursing homes (NHs), and home health agencies (HHAs)—and identify communities with high‐quality care in all settings.Data Sources/Study SettingPublicly available quality measures for hospitals, NHs, and HHAs, linked to hospital service areas (HSAs).Study DesignWe ...
Jeph, Herrin, Kevin, Kenward, Maulik S, Joshi, Anne-Marie J, Audet, Stephen J, Hines   +4 more
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Does hospital information technology infrastructure promote the implementation of clinical practice guidelines? A multicentre observational study of Japanese hospitals

BMJ Open, 2019
ObjectivesIt remains unclear whether insufficient information technology (IT) infrastructure in hospitals hinders implementation of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) and affects healthcare quality.
Noriko Sasaki, Naohito Yamaguchi, Akiko Okumura, Masahiro Yoshida, Hiroyuki Sugawara, Yuichi Imanaka   +5 more
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Exploring a Learning Experience through an Internship: Embold Health Inc. [PDF]

, 2020
Embold Health Inc. is a start-up company created by leading physicians who saw a rising need in health care for accurate and comprehensive data regarding the quality, cost effectiveness, and appropriateness of care.
Earnshaw, Edith
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Case-crossover study to examine the change in postpartum risk of pulmonary embolism over time

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2017
Background Although the current guidelines recommend anticoagulation up until 6 weeks after delivery in women at high risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE), the risk of VTE may extend beyond 6 weeks.
Grégoire Ficheur, Alexandre Caron, Jean-Baptiste Beuscart, Laurie Ferret, Yu-Jin Jung, Charles Garabedian, Régis Beuscart, Emmanuel Chazard   +7 more
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A systematic comparison of different composite measures (DAS 28, CDAI, SDAI, and Boolean approach) for determining treatment effects on low disease activity and remission in rheumatoid arthritis

BMC Rheumatology, 2022
Background Some composite measures for determining the treatment effects of disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs on remission and low disease activity (LDA) in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) may produce misleading results if they include an acute phase ...
Kirsten Janke, Corinna Kiefer, Natalie McGauran, Bernd Richter, Dietmar Krause, Beate Wieseler   +5 more
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