Quality of Health Care
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Paul Coverdell National Acute Stroke Registry Surveillance - four states, 2005-2007.

4 Nov 2009 PROBLEM/CONDITION: Each year, approximately 795,000 persons in the United States experience a new or recurrent stroke. Data from the prototype phase (2001-2004) of the Paul Coverdell National Acute Stroke Registry (PCNASR) suggested that numerous ... Read more...

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...

Improving chronic care of type 2 diabetes using teams of interprofessional learners.

30 Oct 2009 PURPOSE: To improve the care and outcomes of adult patients with type 2 diabetes by teaching interprofessional teams of learners the principles and practices of the Improving Chronic Illness Care Model. METHOD: The study population consisted of 384 ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Quality of Health Care'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Appropriate use of quality measures: Response to "Risk factors for hospital readmission within 30 days: A new quality measure for children with sickle cell disease". 13 Dec 2009
• Paul Coverdell National Acute Stroke Registry Surveillance - four states, 2005-2007. 4 Nov 2009
• Payment reform for safety-net institutions--improving quality and outcomes. 3 Nov 2009
• Hand washing, a key anti-flu strategy, often neglected by health care workers. 2 Nov 2009
• You get what you pay for. 30 Oct 2009
• Enhancing the medical homes model for children with asthma. 30 Oct 2009
• Improving chronic care of type 2 diabetes using teams of interprofessional learners. 30 Oct 2009
• Is there a relationship between high-quality performance in major teaching hospitals and residents' knowledge of quality and patient safety? 30 Oct 2009
• Regarding "Incorporating outpatient venous procedures into a vascular surgery practice". 30 Oct 2009
• Nurses transforming care. 30 Oct 2009
• Quality oversight needed for intraoperative autologous blood recovery and readministration. 30 Oct 2009
• Improving quality in resource poor settings: observational study from rural Rwanda. 28 Oct 2009
• Patient-centered care and preference-sensitive decision making. 26 Oct 2009
• NCEPOD report on acute kidney injury-must do better. 22 Oct 2009
• Communication during breast cancer treatment. 21 Oct 2009
• Pay for performance and quality of care in England. 20 Oct 2009
• Use of aldosterone antagonists in heart failure. 19 Oct 2009
• Ratings game: lists of "top" physicians, hospitals has unclear impact on public. 19 Oct 2009
• Use of multiperspective qualitative interviews to understand patients' and carers' beliefs, experiences, and needs. 12 Oct 2009
• Shared accountability, appropriateness, and quality of surgical care. 12 Oct 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