homes—medicare requirements for quality of care in skilled nursing facilities

... 2009, 4:5 Background The demand for intensive care is increasing because of an aging population and the introduction of new life-sustaining technologies[1] This care is expensive and the necessary ... Map showing geographic distribution of hospitals involved in the study network Map showing geographic distribution of hospitals involved in the study network Map of Province of Ontario showing geographic ... improvement into the intensive care unit Crit Care Med 2007, 35:S59-S65 Kahn JM, Fuchs BD: Identifying and implementing quality improvement measures in the intensive care unit Curr Opin Crit Care 2007,...

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... positively inclined towards performing the behaviours These two groups of measures will together form a large part of our explanatory variables in explaining variation in rates of performing the ... of disciplinary backgrounds Implementation science is the (usually multi-disciplinary) study of those factors that promote the uptake of the findings of clinical research into routine healthcare, ... thereby improving care for patients; it includes the study of both individual and organisational factors Within implementation science there has been increasing interest in the role of theoretical...

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... Reinforcement Learning-based Provisioning 4.1 Introduction 43 4.2 Theory 44 4.2.1 Basic Concepts 45 4.2.2 Advantages of Using Reinforcement Learning 48 4.2.3 Application of Reinforcement Learning ... Learning in Network Control 49 Continuous State-Action-Space Reinforcement Learning 51 4.3.1 REINFORCE Algorithms 52 4.3.2 Stochastic Real-Valued Units 56 4.3 4.4 Reinforcement Learning Formulation of ... Timothy Chee-Kin Hui and Chen-Khong Tham, “Reinforcement Learning-based Dynamic Bandwidth Provisioning for Quality of Service in Differentiated Services Networks”, Proceedings of IEEE International...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2015, 16:30

... Quality of Care A process for making strategic choices in health systems WHO Library Cataloguing -in- Publication Data Quality of care : a process for making strategic choices in health ... ▪ Making health care safer: for example, reducing the incidence and impact of hospital acquired infections 18 A process for building a strategy for quality Strategy Quality goals Choosing interventions ... Policy-making and evidence There is a growing field of research concerning evidence for quality This research reinforces a more scientific and systematic approach to the use of information concerning interventions...

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... as: Doubova Dubova et al.: Quality of care and healthrelated quality of life of climacteric stage women cared for in family medicine clinics in Mexico Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010 8:20 ... the quality of care in a continuous way In addition, it is advisable to search for feasible alternatives to motivate providers to deliver high -quality care The use of incentives, either in kind ... SA: Defining quality of care Soc Sci Med 2000, 51:1611-1625 16 Campbell SM, Braspenning J, Hutchinson A, Marshal MN: Improving the quality of health care Research methods used in developing and...

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... recommended for each of the two tests in baseline period Dissemination of guidelines alone rarely brings about improvements in clinical practice [2], and even an multifaceted implementation of guidelines ... equipment Execution of external quality assessment analysis is important in order to improve the quality of the point of care testing and is a prerequisite for receiving fees for this service Apply ... Waldorff et al.: The efficacy of computer reminders on external quality assessment for point -of- care testing in Danish general practice: rationale and methodology for two randomized trials Implementation...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20

... multidisciplinary responsible for formulating and executing a QI action plan monthly monitoring and discussing of performance using feedback reports sharing main findings with rest of ICU staff ... coordination center, dedicated data managers, software engineers, and a coordinator are responsible for routine processing, storing, checking, and reporting of the data Also, for the duration of ... improve the quality of the care they deliver Nevertheless, as the number of ICUs participating in NICE is rapidly increasing, IT in hospitals is expanding, and applying QI principles is becoming more...

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... questions of QoL in SVT, enabling the authors to translate the various domains and components of well being into a quantitative value For reasons of structure and to simplify answering for the ... Limited in others PANAL B Detraction in daily life Limited in Business/school Limited in sports Limited in hobbies Limited in Garden work Limited in Work at home Limited in Social life Limited in ... underlying clinical tachycardia had to be able to be repeatedly induced before detailed mapping and the ablation maneuvers were performed The ablation itself was performed in sinus rhythm in most...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 11:44

... snapshots of the effects of increasing privatisation of health and home care on the quality of life of women in each section of Canada [75] It concluded that increasing privatisation of health care, ... also been profound changes in the organization of health care in many provinces with increasing shifting of care from the hospital to the community Since home care does not take place in hospitals, ... affordability of childcare for Canadian families, decreasing availability of affordable spaces for working families, reductions in quality of childcare through reduced provincial and territorial funding,...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 11:20

... http://www.who.int/whosis/en/ Reprinted with kind permission of Springer Science+Business Media Medina LS, Blackmore CC, Applegate KE Principles of Evidence-Based Imaging In Medina LS, Applegate ... into the evaluation of the imaging intervention by evaluating the effect of the use of the particular imaging intervention on physician certainty of a given diagnosis (physician decision making) ... the determination of the effect of a given imaging intervention on the length and quality of life of a patient A final efficacy level is that of society, which examines the question of not simply...

Ngày tải lên: 30/05/2014, 23:55

... infraestimations of HRQL scores in the Spanish sample The use of both instruments in different populations, including clinical samples and from different geographical areas in Spain will allow for continuing ... 0.70 the case of the KINDL-R questionnaire [14] The VSP-A was developed using exclusively the opinion of adolescents for defining item and domain content [13] The final model included in both questionnaires ... in parallel and were included in the Kidscreen project as validation instruments [11] As part of the process of obtaining the Spanish versions, interpretability issues were defined The aims of...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20

... applicability of the 10-item short form of the Nepean Dyspepsia Index Dig Dis Sci 2004, 49(4):680-687 King CR: Quality of life and controversial issues In Quality of Life Edited by: King CR, Hinds PS ... conduct this study Instruments The Short Form (SF) Nepean Dyspepsia Index is a 10-item questionnaire with sub-scales each examining the influence of dyspepsia on domains of health in patients, namely ... supporting the construct validity of the instruments Once again, the magnitude of this reduction in SFNDI scores was less marked in the Malay version of the SFNDI and the smaller sample size in this...

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... example of health-related quality of life A European guideline document for the improved integration of health-related quality of life assessment in the drug regulatory process Drug Inf J 2002, ... clearer insights into its measurement properties and direct eventual revisions Abbreviations KINDL: German questionnaire for measuring quality of life in children and adolescents; QOL: quality of ... estimation in structural equation modeling Struct Equ Model 2001, 8:353-377 Boehmer S, Luszcyznska A: Two kinds of items in quality of life instruments: 'Indicator and causal variables' in the EORTC...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... essential in order to meet basic needs, to fulfill usual roles, and to maintain health and wellbeing [5 ]Quality of life (QoL) is defined as an individual's perception of their position in life, in the ... in measuring QoL in children, including (1) lack of consensus on suitable instruments, (2) the need for different instruments in different age groups and (3) the need of proxy reporting by parents ... state of health after paediatric intensive care Arch Dis Child 1995, 73:196-201 Jayshree M, Singhi SC, Malhi P: Follow up of survival and quality of life in children after intensive care Indian...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... the following guidelines For continuous variables measured on a 0–100 scale (including coping), we assume that a point difference is of some, and a 10 point difference of substantial clinical relevance, ... Cleary PD: Linking Clinical Variables With HealthRelated Quality of Life:A Conceptual Model of Patient Outcomes JAMA 273(1):59-65 1995 january Wood-Dauphine S: Assessing Quality of Life in Clinical ... Social Function; Coping: Confrontive coping, Normalising Optimistic Coping, Combined Emotive coping; Burden: Perception of living with angina pectoris Page of 12 (page number not for citation purposes)...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... HRQoL instrument We assessed HRQoL using 15D The 15D is a generic and standardised HRQoL instrument consisting of 15 dimensions: moving, seeing, hearing, breathing, sleeping, eating, speech, elimination, ... effective [7-13] However, the interest in examining the relationship between HRQoL and time spent waiting for surgery has been on the increase since the beginning of 2000 The results have shown ... health care Guidelines for the implementation of a nationwide system for assessing health care needs and for the treatment criteria were prepared by the end of 2003 The national principles of access...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... Feeny D: Health-related quality of life during post-induction chemotherapy in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in remission: An influence of corticosteroid therapy Int J Oncol 1997, 11(2):333-339 ... on-dex and off-dex as found before in Dutch children with ALL [22] Using mean and SD scores of the physical summary score of the Child Health Questionnaire, a sample size of 19 was required in order ... psychosocial) Items are scored using a four to six point Likert scale and converted to a to 100 point continuum, with higher scores indicating better QoL The original reference period of the CHQ (four weeks)...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... example of health-related quality of life A European guideline document for the improved integration of health-related quality of life assessment in the drug regulatory process Drug Inf J 2002, ... clearer insights into its measurement properties and direct eventual revisions Abbreviations KINDL: German questionnaire for measuring quality of life in children and adolescents; QOL: quality of ... estimation in structural equation modeling Struct Equ Model 2001, 8:353-377 Boehmer S, Luszcyznska A: Two kinds of items in quality of life instruments: 'Indicator and causal variables' in the EORTC...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... 23% for the EQ-5D at discharge The reason for this is that the item 'usual activities' is not included in the weighting scheme of the German tariff (only in the form of a dummy variable indicating ... admissions of some patients The ability of an instrument to discriminate between disease stages was analyzed using linear mixed regression models, adjusting for age, sex, smoking status and time of assessment ... disease severities The main problem of the SF-12 in this self-administered setting was the high proportion of missing values For less than 55% of all patients, a comparison of utility values at admission...

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... University of Thessaloniki (2002) He is currently in the process of defending his Ph.D thesis in telecommunications in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the University of Patras, ... Member of the academic staff of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Patras and holds the position of Associate Professor Since 2004, he has been the Director of ... His main interests are wireless networks, quality of service, and network management Ioannis Papapanagiotou has been studying in the Electrical and Computer Engineering School of University of Patras,...

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