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Assisted ambulation to improve health outcomes for older medical inpatients (AMBULATE): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Trials, 2023
Background Hospitalized older adults spend as much as 95% of their time in bed, which can result in adverse events and delay recovery while increasing costs.
Joshua K. Johnson, Aaron C. Hamilton, Bo Hu, Quinn R. Pack, Peter K. Lindenauer, Robert J. Fox, Ardeshir Hashmi, Lee Anne Siegmund, Christian N. Burchill, Glen B. Taksler, Toyomi Goto, Mary Stilphen, Michael B. Rothberg   +12 more
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Development of the First Patient-centred Set of Outcomes for Muscle-invasive and Metastatic Bladder Cancer: A Multicentre Initiative

European Urology Open Science, 2021
Background: To improve and compare outcomes in healthcare, it is necessary to standardise outcome measurements. There are no widely accepted standardised outcome measures reflecting quality of care for bladder cancer (BCa) patients. Objective: The aim of
Daan J. Reesink, Ewoudt M.W. van de Garde, Diederik M. Somford, Richard P. Meijer, Maartje Los, Douwe H. Biesma, Simon Horenblas, Harm H.E. van Melick, Paul B. van der Nat   +8 more
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Improving access to health services – Challenges in Lean application [PDF]

, 2015
Purpose: Healthcare organisations face significant productivity pressures and are undergoing major service transformation. This paper serves to disseminate findings from a Lean healthcare project using a NHS Single Point of Access environment as the ...
Bamford, David, Cheng, Siu Yee, Dehe, Benjamin, Papalexi, Marina   +3 more
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Realising benefits in primary healthcare infrastructures [PDF]

, 2009
Purpose: This paper focuses upon the requirements to manage change, tangible and intangible benefits in a joint approach to deliver outputs on time, to quality and cost without failing to realise the benefits of the change.
Daryl May, Ghassan Aouad, Kathryn Yates, Mike Kagioglou, Stelios Sapountzis   +4 more
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Health outcomes measurement and organizational readiness support quality improvement: a systematic review

BMC Health Services Research, 2018
Background Using outcome measures to advance healthcare continues to be of widespread interest. The goal is to summarize the results of studies which use outcome measures from clinical registries to implement and monitor QI initiatives.
Nynke A. Kampstra, Nina Zipfel, Paul B. van der Nat, Gert P. Westert, Philip J. van der Wees, A. Stef Groenewoud   +5 more
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‘Care for Outcomes’: systematic development of a set of outcome indicators to improve patient-relevant outcomes for patients with lung cancer

BMJ Open, 2021
Objectives Measuring quality of care is important, however many of the quality indicators used do not focus on outcome of treatment and aspects which are valuable for patients and physicians.
Christine M Cramer-van der Welle, Lotte van Loenhout, Ben EEM van den Borne, Franz MNH Schramel, Lea M Dijksman   +4 more
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Mapping the extent, range and nature of research activity on value-based healthcare in the 15 years following its introduction (2006–2021): a scoping review

BMJ Open, 2022
Objectives We aimed to systematically map the extent, range and nature of research activity on value-based healthcare (VBHC), and to identify research gaps.Design A scoping review with an additional cited reference search was conducted, guided by the ...
Paul van der Nat, Gijs Steinmann, Willem Jan W Bos, Mirjam M Garvelink, Joanna R G Vijverberg, Kirsten Daniels, Marc B V Rouppe van der Voort, Douwe Biesma, Frits van Merode   +8 more
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Pricing for safety and quality in healthcare: A discussion paper [PDF]

, 2018
Increasingly, over the past decade, there has been a global shift in healthcare away from fixed “fee for service” payment mechanisms towards value-based reimbursement models rewarding safety and quality patient outcomes.
Lankiewicz, Julie, Lawandi, Natalie, Magid, Benjamin, Murphy, Cathryn, Poulton, Anthony   +4 more
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Healthcare services managers: what information do they need and use? [PDF]

, 2008
Objectives: To gain insight into the information behaviour of healthcare services managers as they draw on information while engaged in decision making unrelated to individual patient care.
Bath, P.A., Booth, A., MacDonald, J.
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The implementation of change model adds value to value-based healthcare: a qualitative study

BMC Health Services Research, 2019
Background Value-based healthcare (VBHC) is a concept that focuses on outcome measurement to contribute to quality improvement. However, VBHC does not offer a systematic approach for implementing improvement as implementation science does. The aim is to,
Nina Zipfel, Paul B. van der Nat, Benno J. W. M. Rensing, Edgar J. Daeter, Gert P. Westert, A. Stef Groenewoud   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source