Health Plan Implementation - Methods
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Improving patient satisfaction with pain management using Six Sigma tools.

29 Jun 2009 BACKGROUND: Patient satisfaction as a direct and public measure of quality of care is changing the way hospitals address quality improvement. The feasibility of using the Six Sigma DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control) methodology to ... Read more...

Facilitating the use of COBRA combination therapy in early rheumatoid arthritis: a pilot implementation study.

30 May 2009 OBJECTIVE: COBRA combination therapy is well known and has uncontested efficacy in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). However, it is infrequently applied in Dutch clinical practice. Based on qualitative research on opinions of physicians ... Read more...

Factors influencing implementation and outcomes of a dental electronic patient record system.

29 Apr 2009 Implementation of clinical information systems is often difficult and costly. Little is known about how to implement electronic patient records in a complex dental school environment. The purpose of this study is to report how such a system was ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Health Plan Implementation - Methods'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Improving patient satisfaction with pain management using Six Sigma tools. 29 Jun 2009
• Facilitating the use of COBRA combination therapy in early rheumatoid arthritis: a pilot implementation study. 30 May 2009
• Factors influencing implementation and outcomes of a dental electronic patient record system. 29 Apr 2009
• Implementation of population screening for colorectal cancer by repeated fecal occult blood test in the Netherlands. 22 Apr 2009
• Fight against chronic diseases (high blood pressure, stroke, diabetes and cancer) in Pakistan; cost-effective interventions. 30 Mar 2009
• Development of a framework for evaluating the sustainability of community-based dengue control projects. 30 Jan 2009
• Assessing coordination of legal-based efforts across jurisdictions and sectors for obesity prevention and control. 30 Dec 2008
• Psychosocial and behavioural determinants of the implementation of Pharmaceutical Care in Spain. 11 Dec 2008
• Change readiness assessment for conversion to electronic medical records. 30 Aug 2008
• Booster seat use by children aged 4-11 years: evidence of the need to revise current Australasian standards to accommodate overweight children. 2 Aug 2008
• The impact of consumer-directed health plans and patient socioeconomic status on physician recommendations for colorectal cancer screening. 14 Jul 2008
• Examining Appreciative Inquiry as a knowledge translation intervention in pain management. 30 May 2008
• Project management tools for leaders and entrepreneurs. 29 Apr 2008
• [Marketing as a tool to increase the effectiveness of public health plans. 2008 SESPAS Report] 30 Mar 2008
• Narrative reports to monitor and evaluate the integration of pharmacists into family practice settings. 28 Feb 2008
• Building a local agenda for dissemination of research into practice. 28 Feb 2008
• Enhancing healthcare process design with human factors engineering and reliability science, part 2: applying the knowledge to clinical documentation systems. 30 Jan 2008
• Implementation of clinical supervision in action: Part 3: the development of a model. 30 Jan 2008
• Implementation of clinical supervision in action: Part 2: implementation and beyond. 30 Jan 2008
• The critical factors influencing the successful implementation of mobile nursing stations: a case study in Taiwan. 30 Dec 2007

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Technical information about 'Health Plan Implementation'

Definition: Those actions designed to carry out recommendations pertaining to health plans or programs.

Descriptor UI: D006284

Alternative terms: Health Plan Implementation; Health Plan Implementations; Implementation, Health Plan; Implementations, Health Plan; Plan Implementation, Health; Plan Implementations, Health;

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

Tree Number: N03.349.300;

History Note: 91(80); was see under HEALTH PLANNING 1980-90

Technical Notes: specify geog