Call for Papers
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Source: Quality Management in Healthcare - September 26, 2021 Category: Health Management Tags: Call for Papers Source Type: research
Information for Authors
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Source: Quality Management in Healthcare - September 26, 2021 Category: Health Management Tags: Information for Authors Source Type: research
Evaluating a Redesigned Advanced Training Program
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Source: Quality Management in Healthcare - September 26, 2021 Category: Health Management Tags: Intermountain Advances Source Type: research
Music Is Often a Better Medicine
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Source: Quality Management in Healthcare - September 26, 2021 Category: Health Management Tags: Insights From the Armstrong Institute Source Type: research
A Rapid Guidance Process for the Development of an Anticoagulation Protocol in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Health care systems have encountered unprecedented challenges during the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, such as standardizing care in the absence of high-quality data. As an emblematic example, preliminary data and early anecdotal experience suggested that a major driver of COVID-19 pathophysiology was hypercoagulability, suggesting the need for aggressive anticoagulation. In this article, we describe the rapid guidance process for the development of an anticoagulation protocol for COVID-19. Preliminary evidence was collected from multidisciplinary experts within our institution to inform the first protocol ...
Source: Quality Management in Healthcare - September 26, 2021 Category: Health Management Tags: Commentary Source Type: research
Supporting Discovery and Inquiry: A Canadian Hospital's Approach to Building Research and Innovation Capacity in Point-of-Care Health Professionals
Conclusions:
Engaging those who provide care directly to patients and families in research and innovation is critical to ensuring high-quality health outcomes and patient experience. Creative and innovative funding models, collaborative leadership, and partnerships with key stakeholders to support research and innovation are needed to ensure sustainability. (Source: Quality Management in Healthcare)
Source: Quality Management in Healthcare - September 26, 2021 Category: Health Management Tags: Quality Management Applications Source Type: research
Reducing Supply Cost by Standardization of Surgical Equipment in Laparoscopic Appendectomy
Conclusion:
Surgical equipment standardization in laparoscopic appendectomy is effective in reducing intraoperative supply cost without compromising patient safety. (Source: Quality Management in Healthcare)
Source: Quality Management in Healthcare - September 26, 2021 Category: Health Management Tags: Quality Management Applications Source Type: research
Improving the Delivery of High-Quality Cancer Care in Medically Underserved Communities: A Formative Evaluation Method
Conclusion:
This article outlines the evaluation of a new program demonstrating that medical oncology practices can make improvements in the care of their underserved populations if provided with the proper tools, methods, and coaching. The use of formative evaluation methodology also identified opportunities for improvement and ultimately resulted in additional funding for more practices to participate in the program. (Source: Quality Management in Healthcare)
Source: Quality Management in Healthcare - September 26, 2021 Category: Health Management Tags: Methods and Instruments Source Type: research
Improvement in the Prediction of Coronary Heart Disease Risk by Using Artificial Neural Networks
Conclusions:
The findings suggest that the ANN model is a promising approach for predicting CHD risk and a good screening procedure to identify high-risk subjects. (Source: Quality Management in Healthcare)
Source: Quality Management in Healthcare - September 26, 2021 Category: Health Management Tags: Methods and Instruments Source Type: research
Effects of Text Enhancement on Reduction of Look-Alike Drug Name Confusion: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
This study aimed to explore the effects of text enhancement on reduction of confusion caused by look-alike drug names through systematic review and meta-analysis.
Methods:
We searched 5 databases (from database inception to January 2020) for empirical studies that examined the effects of text enhancement on reduction of look-alike drug name–induced drug name confusion. The pooled outcome data were analyzed using either meta-analysis or a narrative synthesis approach.
Results:
From the 351 identified articles, 11 articles representing 20 individual trials were included. Five basic text enhancement methods we...
Source: Quality Management in Healthcare - September 26, 2021 Category: Health Management Tags: Literature Review Source Type: research
Systematic Undercoding of Diagnostic Procedures in National Inpatient Sample (NIS): A Threat to Validity Due to Surveillance Bias
Conclusions:
Our findings question the validity of using NIS and other administrative databases for health services and outcomes research that rely on certain diagnostic procedures. Unfortunately, the NIS does not provide granular data that can control for differences in diagnostic procedure use, which can lead to surveillance bias. Researchers and policy makers must understand and acknowledge the limitations inherent in these databases, when used for pay-for-performance initiatives and hospital benchmarking. (Source: Quality Management in Healthcare)
Source: Quality Management in Healthcare - September 26, 2021 Category: Health Management Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Performance Measurement Outcomes: An Analysis of Health Care–Associated Infections in New York State
Conclusion:
Identifying hospitals that are consistently performing poorly and hospitals consistently performing well will allow administrators and clinicians to focus their efforts including budgetary to where improvements are needed. Patient care and the reduction of HAIs are a priority for health care institutions. While the results are similar to those reported by NYS, this approach can be used more comprehensively and can be interpreted more easily by administrators and practitioners. Health care administrators and clinicians may find the information useful to address infection rates. Hospitals consistently perform...
Source: Quality Management in Healthcare - September 26, 2021 Category: Health Management Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Online Reviews of Hemodialysis Centers Correlate With Medicare and Medicaid Survey Measures of Patient Experience
Conclusion:
Certain components of online reviews are significantly correlated with ICH-CAHPS measures of patient experience. Additionally, online reviews come with narrative comments that can offer specific insights into positive and negative aspects of patient care that cannot always be elucidated by numeric survey questions. Online reviews may have utility as an adjunctive source of information to patient experience surveys such as the ICH-CAHPS. (Source: Quality Management in Healthcare)
Source: Quality Management in Healthcare - September 26, 2021 Category: Health Management Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Call for Reviewers
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Source: Quality Management in Healthcare - July 1, 2021 Category: Health Management Tags: Call for Reviewers Source Type: research
Call for Papers
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Source: Quality Management in Healthcare - July 1, 2021 Category: Health Management Tags: Call for Papers Source Type: research
