Delivery of Health Care - Standards
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Improving care at cystic fibrosis centers through quality improvement.

14 Sep 2009 Quality improvement (QI) using a clinical microsystems approach provides cystic fibrosis (CF) centers the opportunity to make a significant positive impact on the health of their patients. The availability of center-specific outcomes data and the ... Read more...

Why health reform?

5 Sep 2009 Traditional health care is fragmented, marred by quality and safety defects, with a failure to provide evidence-based care, and huge and unjustifiable variations in practice. There is abundant evidence that traditional means of delivering health ... Read more...

[The role of university medicine in the development of clinical guidelines]

30 Aug 2009 Clinical guidelines are bridges between clinical research and patient care. In Germany, medical societies and university medicine are the main bodies responsible for the development, dissemination, and updating of high quality guidelines. The high ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Delivery of Health Care - Standards'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Systems-based competency. 30 Oct 2009
• The gift of time. 11 Oct 2009
• The critical need for trained and certified ophthalmic medical personnel: fall survey of staff and productivity. 29 Sep 2009
• Celebrating 8 projects that improved our world. 26 Sep 2009
• Six of the top achievements in Canadian health research. 26 Sep 2009
• No country for sick men. To judge the content of a nation's character, look no further than its health-care system. 19 Sep 2009
• Improving care at cystic fibrosis centers through quality improvement. 14 Sep 2009
• [Dialogues about the revolution] 7 Sep 2009
• Why health reform? 5 Sep 2009
• Every physician should have a migraine. 2 Sep 2009
• Sign for a fair society. 30 Aug 2009
• [Managing change among nations for better health] 30 Aug 2009
• Physician leadership is key to creating a safer, more reliable health care system. 30 Aug 2009
• Outpatient screening endoscopy: why not the standard of care? Interview by Paul Adams. 30 Aug 2009
• The physician views financing of hospital and medical care. 30 Aug 2009
• [The role of university medicine in the development of clinical guidelines] 30 Aug 2009
• Practice guidelines: development, application to clinical care, and role in provider education. 30 Aug 2009
• Leadership committed to safety. 25 Aug 2009
• [The Coordination Reform and the universities] 25 Aug 2009
• The effects of payment by results. 25 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'Delivery of Health Care'

Definition: The concept concerned with all aspects of providing and distributing health services to a patient population.

Descriptor UI: D003695

Alternative terms: Delivery of Health Care; Healthcare Delivery; Deliveries, Healthcare; Delivery, Healthcare; Delivery of Healthcare; Healthcare Deliveries; Health Care Delivery; Delivery, Health Care; Contraceptive Distribution; Contraceptive Distributions; Distribution, Contraceptive; Distributions, Contraceptive; Nonclinical Distribution; Distribution, Nonclinical; Distributions, Nonclinical; Nonclinical Distributions; Distribution, Non-Clinical; Distribution, Non Clinical; Distributions, Non-Clinical; Non-Clinical Distributions; Non-Clinical Distribution; Non Clinical Distribution; Distributional Activities; Activities, Distributional; Activity, Distributional; Distributional Activity; Health Care; Care, Health; Healthcare; Health Care Systems; Health Care System; System, Health Care; Systems, Health Care; Healthcare Systems; Healthcare System; System, Healthcare; Systems, Healthcare; Community-Based Distribution; Community Based Distribution; Community-Based Distributions; Distribution, Community-Based; Distributions, Community-Based; Delivery of Dental Care; Dental Care Delivery; Delivery, Dental Care;

Related Mesh Headings: Consumer Participation;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics; manpower; methods;

Tree Number: N04.590.374; N05.300;

History Note: 71

Technical Notes: Public Law 91-515