Quality of Health Care - Organization & administration
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Enhancing the medical homes model for children with asthma.

30 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: Medical Home is an evolving concept of patient-centered care yet little information is available on its effect on health care expenditures for children. OBJECTIVES: To quantify differences in patterns of care and costs to the North ... Read more...

Supporting culture change: working toward smarter state nursing home regulation.

29 Sep 2009 The traditional nursing home regulatory approach, which uses survey and enforcement to achieve performance improvement, has created tensions between providers and surveyors. It has had limited success in improving quality overall and not necessarily ... Read more...

Expanding the public health research agenda for ovarian cancer.

30 Aug 2009 Since the year 2000, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has undertaken an active public health research agenda in ovarian cancer, focused mainly on research related to earlier recognition of symptoms, methods for earlier diagnosis, ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Quality of Health Care - Organization & administration'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• You get what you pay for. 30 Oct 2009
• Enhancing the medical homes model for children with asthma. 30 Oct 2009
• Regarding "Incorporating outpatient venous procedures into a vascular surgery practice". 30 Oct 2009
• Nurses transforming care. 30 Oct 2009
• NCEPOD report on acute kidney injury-must do better. 22 Oct 2009
• Are women safer doctors? 8 Oct 2009
• Supporting culture change: working toward smarter state nursing home regulation. 29 Sep 2009
• How do they do it? Baylor has lowest HF readmissions. 29 Sep 2009
• RN+RN=better care? What do we know about the association between the number of nurses and patient outcomes? 29 Sep 2009
• Expanding the public health research agenda for ovarian cancer. 30 Aug 2009
• Integration of STI and HIV prevention, care, and treatment into family planning services: a review of the literature. 30 Aug 2009
• Reforming cardiovascular care: quality measurement and improvement, and pay-for-performance. 30 Aug 2009
• Governing in the new quality, safety landscape. For effective oversight, boards must engage at three levels: see, own and solve. 30 Aug 2009
• Clinical librarian attendance at general surgery quality of care rounds (Morbidity and Mortality Conference). 25 Aug 2009
• Improving measurement in clinical handover. 30 Jul 2009
• "There is a chain of Chinese whispers ...": empirical data support the call to formally teach handover to prequalification doctors. 30 Jul 2009
• Use of strategies from high-reliability organisations to the patient hand-off by resident physicians: practical implications. 30 Jul 2009
• What are covering doctors told about their patients? Analysis of sign-out among internal medicine house staff. 30 Jul 2009
• Improving clinical handovers: creating local solutions for a global problem. 30 Jul 2009
• Objective quality metrics and personal dashboards for quality improvement. 30 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Quality of Health Care'

Definition: The levels of excellence which characterize the health service or health care provided based on accepted standards of quality.

Descriptor UI: D011787

Alternative terms: Quality of Health Care; Health Care Quality; Quality of Healthcare; Healthcare Quality;

Related Mesh Headings: Professional Staff Committees; National Practitioner Data Bank;

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

Tree Number: N04.761; N05.715;

Online Note: pre-explosion = QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE (PX)

History Note: 68

Technical Notes: IM