Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care)
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Improving quality in resource poor settings: observational study from rural Rwanda.

28 Oct 2009 PROBLEM: Hospitals in rural Africa, such as in Rwanda, often lack electricity, supplies, and staff. In our setting, basic care processes, such monitoring vital signs, giving drugs, and laboratory testing, were performed unreliably, resulting in ... Read more...

Implementation of a mandatory checklist of protocols and objectives improves compliance with a wide range of evidence-based intensive care unit practices.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: To determine a) if a checklist covering a diverse group of intensive care unit protocols and objectives would improve clinician consideration of these domains and b) if improved consideration would change practice patterns. DESIGN: Pre- ... Read more...

[Oral hygiene in nursing home residents. Impact of an oral health education programme for the nursing personnel on the residents' oral health]

29 Sep 2009 Many studies have shown urgent need in improving oral health hygiene in nursing home residents. Deficits in the knowledge of the personnel in dental and oral hygiene are often cited as one of the causes. Therefore in the spring of 2007 the nursing ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care)'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Regarding "Incorporating outpatient venous procedures into a vascular surgery practice". 30 Oct 2009
• Invited commentary. 30 Oct 2009
• Participation of unit nurses: front-line implementation on TCAB pilot units. 30 Oct 2009
• Improving mammography screening. 30 Oct 2009
• TCAB: the 'how' and the 'what'. 30 Oct 2009
• POEMs (patient-oriented evidence that matters): the surgeon's poetry. 30 Oct 2009
• Improving quality in resource poor settings: observational study from rural Rwanda. 28 Oct 2009
• Surgeons continue to debate place of randomized trials of surgical procedures. 12 Oct 2009
• [More and better evaluations in health care] 6 Oct 2009
• Implementation of a mandatory checklist of protocols and objectives improves compliance with a wide range of evidence-based intensive care unit practices. 29 Sep 2009
• Did we learn anything from Humpty Dumpty? 29 Sep 2009
• [Oral hygiene in nursing home residents. Impact of an oral health education programme for the nursing personnel on the residents' oral health] 29 Sep 2009
• Hospital performance recognition with the Get With The Guidelines Program and mortality for acute myocardial infarction and heart failure. 29 Sep 2009
• Does vascular surgery cost too much? 24 Sep 2009
• Case management for depression by health care assistants in small primary care practices: a cluster randomized trial. 13 Sep 2009
• Emergency Department utilisation: a natural experiment. 9 Sep 2009
• Immediate vs delayed intervention for acute coronary syndromes: a randomized clinical trial. 31 Aug 2009
• The uninsured with chronic back pain lament, "I can't get no... satisfaction". 30 Aug 2009
• Wireless capsule endoscopy in Israeli Defense Force: two years of experience. 30 Aug 2009
• One is never enough. 30 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care)'

Definition: Evaluation procedures that focus on both the outcome or status (OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE);) of the patient at the end of an episode of care - presence of symptoms, level of activity, and mortality; and the process (PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE);) - what is done for the patient diagnostically and therapeutically.

Descriptor UI: D010043

Alternative terms: Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care); Outcome and Process Assessment;

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

Tree Number: N04.761.559; N05.715.360.575;

History Note: 79

Technical Notes: note category; must discuss both outcome & process: OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE) is available for only outcome, PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE) is available for only process; DF: OUTCOME PROCESS ASSESS