Quality Assurance, Health Care - Economics
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Monday, November 23, 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 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...

Financing American Indian health care: impacts and options for improving access and quality.

29 Sep 2009 (1) Indian Health Service (HIS) per patient funding is less than half of national per capita health spending, and declined further between 2003 and 2006. (2) Under-funding of the IHS system has led to explicit rationing of services to American ... Read more...

The effects of an incentive program on quality of care in diabetes management.

30 Aug 2009 An incentive program for general practitioners to encourage systematic and igh-quality care in chronic disease management was introduced in Australia in 1999. There is little empirical evidence and ambiguous theoretical guidance on which effects to ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Quality Assurance, Health Care - Economics'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Medicare's new regulations for deep vein thrombosis as a "never event": wise or worrisome? 30 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
• Financing American Indian health care: impacts and options for improving access and quality. 29 Sep 2009
• Does vascular surgery cost too much? 24 Sep 2009
• The effects of an incentive program on quality of care in diabetes management. 30 Aug 2009
• [Economics in orthopedic and trauma surgery. From quality assurance to prioritisation] 17 Aug 2009
• Measuring the quality-of-life effects of diagnostic and screening tests. 30 Jul 2009
• Pay for performance: quality- and value-based reimbursement. 30 Jul 2009
• [Cost analysis for ambulatory treatment of cystic fibrosis patients in Germany. Overview of the prospective study results] 16 Jul 2009
• [Psychiatric psychotherapeutic psychosomatic treatment by the hospital: framework for the development of a multi-sector budget for regional mandatory care] 4 Jul 2009
• [Introduction to methods of economic modelling: a primer for orthopaedic surgeons and traumatologists] 29 Jun 2009
• Price and quality transparency: how effective for health care reform? 29 Jun 2009
• Pay-for-performance (of) advance directives. 29 Jun 2009
• Preparing for quality-based payments: trends and legal barriers to successful implementation. 29 Jun 2009
• [When Mammon is allowed to control health care] 29 Jun 2009
• Marginal improvement. Don't expect pay-for-performance programs to solve quality, cost problems. 20 Jun 2009
• Improve or lose. Maryland pegs reimbursement to reducing complications for 52 conditions. 20 Jun 2009
• Integrating pay for performance with educational strategies to improve diabetes care. 30 May 2009
• How do you modernize a health service? A realist evaluation of whole-scale transformation in london. 30 May 2009
• [Quality in health care--what does it mean actually?] 26 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Quality Assurance, Health Care'

Definition: Activities and programs intended to assure or improve the quality of care in either a defined medical setting or a program. The concept includes the assessment or evaluation of the quality of care; identification of problems or shortcomings in the delivery of care; designing activities to overcome these deficiencies; and follow-up monitoring to ensure effectiveness of corrective steps.

Descriptor UI: D011785

Alternative terms: Quality Assurance, Health Care; Healthcare Quality Assurance; Assurance, Healthcare Quality; Assurances, Healthcare Quality; Healthcare Quality Assurances; Quality Assurances, Healthcare; Quality Assurance, Healthcare; Health Care Quality Assurance; Healthcare Quality Assessment; Assessment, Healthcare Quality; Assessments, Healthcare Quality; Healthcare Quality Assessments; Quality Assessments, Healthcare; Quality Assessment, Health Care; Health Care Quality Assessment; Quality Assessment, Healthcare;

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

Tree Number: N04.761.700; N05.700;

Online Note: use QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE to search QUALITY ASSURANCE PROGRAM 1978-79

History Note: 80; QUALITY ASSURANCE PROGRAM was see QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE 1978-79

Technical Notes: DF: QUAL ASSUR