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International Journal of Nursing Studies, 2018
BACKGROUND Patient- and family-centered care interventions are increasingly being implemented in various settings for improving the quality of health care.
Myonghwa Park +5 more
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BACKGROUND Patient- and family-centered care interventions are increasingly being implemented in various settings for improving the quality of health care.
Myonghwa Park +5 more
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The Cost of Quality in Health Care
Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, 1992The potential fiscal impact of improved quality on health care providers and organizations is substantial. In this era of dwindling health care resources, proposals that may limit cost increases while improving quality represent true win-win situations.
D T, Overton, L M, Delene
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Quality Measures in Health Care
Health Marketing Quarterly, 1996This article discusses measurement of quality in health care. The authors attempt to answer the following questions: why measure quality, and what will quality measurement do? The current quality measurement system is described including definitions of the measurable aspects of health care and current measurement tools.
D R, Self, R, Sherer
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Managing the Quality of Health Care
Journal of Health and Human Services Administration, 2002This article reviews quality of health care initiatives beginning with the quality assessment/quality assurance movement of the 1970s. Conceptually, modern quality of care management is rooted in the intellectual wort of Avedis Donabedian who defined quality of care as, a combination of structure, process, and outcome.
James S, Larson, Andreas, Muller
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JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1996
A new reality is emerging as cost limits are set for health care: quality of care is becoming a major concern to payers and patients. Increasingly, employers and state and federal governments pay fixed premiums per enrollee to managed care organizations (MCOs), who then pay physicians by mechanisms designed to limit use of service; the question ...
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A new reality is emerging as cost limits are set for health care: quality of care is becoming a major concern to payers and patients. Increasingly, employers and state and federal governments pay fixed premiums per enrollee to managed care organizations (MCOs), who then pay physicians by mechanisms designed to limit use of service; the question ...
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Quality of health care. Part 3: Improving the quality of care
Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, 1997M. Chassin
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Quality of Health and Health Care
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1995The demise of federal efforts at health care system reform produced a number of losers. The non—Medicaid-eligible poor will continue to struggle for adequate access to appropriate health care, particularly preventive and primary care services. Academic health centers will be adversely affected by the unwillingness of managed care organizations to pay a
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Health Care Technology and Quality of Care
Quality Assurance and Utilization Review, 1987The increasing costs and complexity of technologic advances in diagnosis and treatment have been ac companied by other important issues. They are often moral or ethical in nature; they include the public's desire and determination to have access to these "high-tech" advances; and the quality and equity with which those advances are apportioned and ...
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Quality of health care for the disadvantaged
Journal of Community Health, 1975Literature review points out that: (a) differentials in health status between the disadvantaged and the nondisadvantaged persist, often to a large degree; (b) differentials in the overall amount of care received are less striking now than heretofore, but standardization by level of need demonstrates measurable discrepancies in health services provided ...
R H, Brook, K N, Williams
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"Caring" as Part of Health Care Quality
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1975The subjective aspects of "caring" are an important part of health care quality and should be understood in the context of the illness-recovery process and the physician-patient relationship. "Caring" requires sensitivity on the part of the physician to the role of illness in our society and to the emotional component of illness in every patient.
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