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Quality of health care.

Issue brief (Health Policy Tracking Service), 2008
WHO policy “Health for all” defines ten global goals and one of them is relating to health care quality: “Improvement of comprehensive high quality health care”. There are numerous definitions of health care and WHO defines it as “the level where delivered health care achieves the best results establishing the balance between the risk and benefit ...
Grujić, Vera, Martinov Cvejin, Mirjana
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Quality of health care. Part 2: Measuring quality of care

Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, 1997
Until recently, we relied primarily on professional judgment to ensure that patients received high-quality medical care.
R H, Brook, E A, McGlynn, P D, Cleary
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Quality of Health and Health Care

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1995
The 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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"Caring" as Part of Health Care Quality

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1975
The 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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Health Care Technology and Quality of Care

Quality Assurance and Utilization Review, 1987
The 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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Parents' Perceptions of Quality Health Care

MCN, The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing, 2000
To examine differences in definitions of health care quality and the importance of indicators of quality between consumers with dependent children and consumers with no dependents.This was an exploratory study using a convenience sample of 229 consumers--96 with one or more dependent children and 133 with no dependent children.
M, Oermann, J, Lambert, T, Templin
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Measurement of quality in health care

Neurology, 1998
Despite the lack of a generally accepted definition of quality health care, numerous tools purporting to measure quality are being developed and disseminated, similar to the example described by Hinchey et al. in this issue.1 The interest in quality assessment is being driven by several forces.
D J, Lanska, A J, Hartz
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Quality of Health Care

2012
The challenge to deliver the highest quality health care to patients with diabetes is complex and multifaceted. The goal of this chapter is to provide the reader with a working knowledge of the conceptual framework of health care quality and measurement as applied in the treatment and management of diabetic foot care.
Emily A. Cook, Marcia A. Testa
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