Quality Indicators, Health Care - Standards
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

[Analysis of quality data based on national clinical databases]

12 Sep 2009 There is little agreement on the philosophy of measuring clinical quality in health care. How data should be analyzed and transformed to healthcare information is an ongoing discussion. To accept a difference in quality between health departments as ... Read more...

Quality measurement in orthopaedics: the purchasers' view.

28 Jul 2009 While all of medicine is under pressure to increase transparency and accountability, joint replacement subspecialists will face special scrutiny. Disclosures of questionable consulting fees, a demographic shift to younger patients, and uncertainty ... Read more...

Comparison of commission on cancer-approved and -nonapproved hospitals in the United States: implications for studies that use the National Cancer Data Base.

25 Jul 2009 BACKGROUND: The Commission on Cancer (CoC) designates cancer programs on the basis of the ability to provide a wide range of oncologic services and specialists. All CoC-approved hospitals are required to report their cancer diagnoses to the National ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Quality Indicators, Health Care - Standards'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• [Analysis of quality data based on national clinical databases] 12 Sep 2009
• Database duels do not advance quality improvement. 30 Aug 2009
• [Eeny, meeny miny, moe and you're out] 30 Jul 2009
• Quality measurement in orthopaedics: the purchasers' view. 28 Jul 2009
• Comparison of commission on cancer-approved and -nonapproved hospitals in the United States: implications for studies that use the National Cancer Data Base. 25 Jul 2009
• [How nationally concordated measures for quality assurance in clinical care of term and preterm infants are put into practice in Baden-Württemberg] 21 Jul 2009
• Assessing surgical quality using administrative and clinical data sets: a direct comparison of the University HealthSystem Consortium Clinical Database and the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program data set. 5 Jul 2009
• Monitoring quality of care in residential care for the elderly: the information challenge. 29 Jun 2009
• Hildner Lecture: quality of healthcare. 29 Jun 2009
• National benchmarking between the Nordic countries on the quality of care. 13 Jun 2009
• Assessing quality indicators for pediatric community-acquired pneumonia. 9 Jun 2009
• [Certified quality management according to DIN ISO 9001 in a radiology department at a university hospital: measurable changes in academic quality indicators?] 8 Jun 2009
• Executive summary: value-based purchasing and technology assessment in orthopaedics. 2 Jun 2009
• Quality management in rectal carcinoma: what is feasible? 31 May 2009
• Assessing new methods of clinical measurement. 30 May 2009
• Implementation of the Quality Oncology Practice Initiative at a university comprehensive cancer center. 30 May 2009
• [Quality assurance by routine data (QAR)--a new dimension in quality management of inpatient treatment?] 30 May 2009
• [Home nursing of severely ill children in Lower Saxony is improved] 30 May 2009
• The challenge of measuring quality of care from the electronic health record. 27 May 2009
• [Measuring patient safety--why and how?] 9 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Quality Indicators, Health Care'

Definition: Norms, criteria, standards, and other direct qualitative and quantitative measures used in determining the quality of health care.

Descriptor UI: D019984

Alternative terms: Quality Indicators, Health Care; Quality Indicators, Healthcare; Healthcare Quality Indicator; Healthcare Quality Indicators; Indicator, Healthcare Quality; Indicators, Healthcare Quality; Quality Indicator, Healthcare; Quality Indicators; Indicator, Quality; Indicators, Quality; Quality Indicator;

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

Tree Number: N04.761.789;

History Note: 98