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Improving the Quality of Health Care

AMA Journal of Ethics, 2004
The theme editor introduces a special issue focusing on improving the quality of patient care. Virtual Mentor is a monthly bioethics journal published by the American Medical Association.
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Quality of care and health status in Ukraine [PDF]

BMC Health Services Research, 2014
We conducted a national level assessment of the quality of clinical care practice in the Ukrainian healthcare system for two important causes of death and chronic disease conditions. We tested two hypotheses: a) quality of care is predicted by physician and facility characteristics and b) health status is predicted by quality of care.During 2009-2010 ...
Peabody, John W., Luck, Jeff, DeMaria, Lisa, Menon, Rekha   +3 more
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Occurrence of adverse events in the activity of hospital wards in the opinions of doctors and nursing management staff

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine, 2020
Introduction An adverse event is an incident induced while providing health care services or resulting from it, not related to the natural course of a given disease or health condition, which causes or is likely to cause negative consequences for the ...
Marcin Mikos, Aleksandra Banaszewska, Halina Kutaj-Wąsikowska, Barbara Kutryba, Aleksandra Czerw, Anna Maria Badowska-Kozakiewicz, Ewa Wójtowicz   +6 more
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A prospective cluster randomized trial of an interventions bundle to reduce inappropriate antibiotic use for upper respiratory tract infections in the outpatient setting

BMC Infectious Diseases
Background Antibiotic overuse and increasing antimicrobial resistance are global public health threats. We determined the impact of a multicomponent intervention in reducing inappropriate antibiotic use for upper respiratory tract infections (URTIs) in ...
Adeel A. Butt, Sherin Shams, Atika Jabeen, Asma Ali Al-Nuaimi, Jeyaram Illiayaraja Krishnan, Aimon B. Malik, Samah Saleem, Maryam Hassan Abdulaziz, Naheel Ismail Seyam, Kamran Aziz, Dalia Kandil, Anil G. Thomas, Hanaa Nafady-Hego, Muzna I. Lone, Jameela Al Ajmi, Zain A. Bhutta, Noora AlSulaiti, Wael E. Said Hussein, Sandy Semaan, Samya Ahmad Al-Abdulla, Mohamed Ghaith Al-Kuwari, Abdul-Badi Abou-Samra   +21 more
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Evaluating deviations and considerations in daily practice when double-checking high-risk medication administration: A qualitative study using the FRAM

Heliyon
Background: Double-check protocol compliance during administration is low. Regardless, most high-risk medication administrations are performed without incidents.
Sharon A. van Stralen, Linda van Eikenhorst, Astrid S. Vonk, Bernadette C.F.M. Schutijser, Cordula Wagner   +4 more
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The Perils of a “My Work Here is Done” perspective: a mixed methods evaluation of sustainment of an evidence-based intervention for transient ischemic attack

BMC Health Services Research, 2022
Background To evaluate quality improvement sustainment for Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA) and identify factors influencing sustainment, which is a challenge for Learning Healthcare Systems.
Dawn M. Bravata, Edward J. Miech, Laura J. Myers, Anthony J. Perkins, Ying Zhang, Nicholas A. Rattray, Sean A. Baird, Lauren S. Penney, Curt Austin, Teresa M. Damush   +9 more
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Acute Hemolytic Reaction After Transfusion of Erythrocyte-containing Blood Components: Causes, Prevention, Clinical Cases

Неотложная медицинская помощь, 2021
The article concerns the problem of studying the causes of the development of hemolytic reactions after transfusion of erythrocyte-containing blood components. The ways of preventing hemolysis as a result of blood transfusions are considered.
Ya. S. Andreyeva, O. A. Mayorova, A. Yu. Bulanov, K. S. Momotyuk, V. Yu. Zinkin, V. V. Belyakova, E. A. Vatagina   +6 more
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The searchbuildR shiny app: A new implementation of the objective approach for search strategy development in systematic reviews

Cochrane Evidence Synthesis and Methods
Introduction One of the main tasks in information retrieval is the development of Boolean search strategies for systematic searches in bibliographic databases. This includes the identification of free‐text terms and controlled vocabulary.
Claudia Kapp, Naomi Fujita‐Rohwerder, Jona Lilienthal, Wiebke Sieben, Siw Waffenschmidt, Elke Hausner   +5 more
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Comorbidities, Health-Related Quality of Life, Health-care Utilization in Older Persons with Hemophilia—Hematology Utilization Group Study Part VII (HUGS VII)

Journal of Blood Medicine, 2022
Randall Curtis,1 Marilyn Manco-Johnson,2 Barbara A Konkle,3 Roshni Kulkarni,4 Joanne Wu,5 Judith R Baker,6 Megan Ullman,7 Duc Quang Tran Jr,8 Michael B Nichol5 1Factor VIII Computing, Berkeley, CA, USA; 2Hemophilia and Thrombosis Center, University of ...
Curtis R, Manco-Johnson M, Konkle BA, Kulkarni R, Wu J, Baker JR, Ullman M, Tran DQ Jr, Nichol MB   +8 more
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Investigating the knowledge of and public attitudes towards genetic testing within the Visegrad countries: a cross-sectional study

BMC Public Health, 2020
Background Previous studies have investigated various factors that can determine the attitudes of the citizens considering genetic testing. However, none of them investigated how these attitudes may differ between the Visegrad countries.
Klára Bíró, Viktor Dombrádi, Zita Fekete, Gábor Bányai, Klára Boruzs, Attila Nagy, Róza Ádány   +6 more
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