quality improvement opportunties in intrapartum care

... Critically Assessing the Literature: Understanding Error and Bias In Medina LS, Blackmore DD (eds): Evidence-Based Imaging: Optimizing Imaging in Patient Care New York: Springer Science+Business Media, ... Imaging in Pediatrics: Optimizing Imaging in Pediatric Patient Care New York: Springer Science+Business Media, 2010 GDP gross domestic product Chapter 1  Principles of Evidence-Based Imaging ... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 30/05/2014, 23:55

... definitions or explanations in the glossary, examples or illustrations Print: Selecting 'Print' in the browser or from the Windows Help system will print the contents of the main NorthStar window ... Respondents' self-rated confidence in carrying out tasks relevant to quality improvement research using NorthStar Task Mean (range) Involve stakeholders in quality improvement intervention research Identify ... contains the following An outline of the section Introduction Things to consider One or two paragraphs introducing the topic Checklists; background information; protocol considerations (relating...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22

... family-centered care include integrating patient feedback on preferences, functional outcomes, and experiences of care into all care settings and care delivery Additional opportunities include increasing ... Strategy for Quality Improvement in Health Care Introduction The National Strategy for Quality Improvement in Health Care (National Quality Strategy) is an important element of the Affordable Care Act ... Congress on the Interagency Working Group on Health Care Quality s activities in October 2011, available at: http://www.ahrq.gov/workingforquality/ Interagency Working Group on Health Care Quality Member...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 15:20

... accreditation in quality rating systems) Quality Rating and Improvement Systems Quality rating systems are an increasingly popular tool for improving child -care quality They are implemented statewide in ... improvement, including, for example, professional development support for staff in centers that attained a specified xiv Child -Care Quality Rating and Improvement Systems in Five Pioneer States rating and ... have calls for improving its quality One approach to quality improvement that has been gaining momentum involves the development and implementation of quality rating and improvement systems (QRISs):...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 03:20

... records Inclusion criteria were having at least one primary care appointment in the preceding 12 months in a participating practice, and having one pending appointment scheduled within the three ... entering and exiting CCM During and after the trial improvement work continued, with for instance a focus on care manager electronic decision support, training, and methods for engaging primary care ... Based on Care Manager Quality Improvement Registry Data Total n = 378 representing those clinician- and research-referred patients finishing panel management (380, Fig 2) minus two clinician-referred...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20

... delivered academic detailing to clinicians in the patient-centered intervention guided each clinician through his or her personal interactive communication skills training program in a one-on-one or ... related to depression included in the training program: recognizing depression; evaluating patients for associated conditions and suicidal ideation; assessing functioning and coping strategies, knowledge ... training, board certification status, practice experience) X Specialty (internal medicine or family medicine) X Previous communication skills CME training X X Previous mental health CME training...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... expertise in relation to selecting samples for audit, applying definitional criteria, interpreting data, and providing feedback Medical knowledge was also critical to synthesizing clinical information ... program leaders in this respect They played a key role in shaping an organisational vision for what could be achieved through investing in quality improvement and in articulating how ABCD would ... disease focus and an interest in being involved in CQI Successful leaders engaged staff in building a shared organizational vision as well as in making sense of what ABCD would mean in relation to...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... centers are increasingly recognizing engagement in quality improvement as a distinct career pathway [15] Involving such physicians in METs will likely facilitate the dual roles of METs as a clinical ... local care at a rate far higher than routine incidentreporting systems but without requiring substantial investments of additional resources Moreover, the direct involvement of clinicians in the ... Identifying adverse events caused by medical care: degree of physician agreement in a retrospective chart review Ann Intern Med 1996, 125:457-464 Shojania KG, Levinson W: Clinicians in quality improvement: ...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:06

... average time from buying to harvesting is four months There is one main shrimp crop per year, starting in January and finishing in May With intensive methods, harvesting can continue for some months ... and principles to apply HACCP quality control standards, resulting in hazard infection in final shrimp products Market problems Market problems affecting product quality include consumer information ... corporations increasingly dominate global trade The emergence of supermarket chains in international business has very much influenced the demand for a consistent supply of safe Research Introduction quality...

Ngày tải lên: 23/04/2013, 09:34

... health care in the near future Health Care Delivery and Systems l Health care quality and access are suboptimal, especially for minority and low-income groups Information about health care delivery ... Healthcare Quality Report and National Healthcare Disparities Report are available online at http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/qrdr10.htm Healthcare Quality and Disparities in Women: Selected Findings ... are improving in quality: (1) Palliative and End-of-Life Care and (2) Patient and Family Engagement l In 2007, females had a significantly lower rate of deaths following complications of care than...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 14:20

... important reduction in their QOL, causing damage in caregiver's health condition [7-9] In 1993, The WHOQOL (The World Health Organization Quality of Life) Group [10] defined QOL as individuals' perceptions ... variables and caregiver's QOL included in the discussion came mainly from descriptive studies In order to summarize the results taking into account the heterogeneity and the poor quality of the ... disqualify informal caregivers Some researches have analyzed cultural variables in populations that have not been frequently included in research Caregivers belonging to an ethnic minority have...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... QoL in diabetics, especially in unselected patients as in primary care [5,6] With increasing age QoL depends more and more on the individual health status and resulting impairments [7-9] In general ... for measuring healthrelated QoL, which is often used in international studies [14,15] The SF-36 provides scores in eight domains (Physical functioning (PF), Role-physical (RP), Bodily Pain (BP), ... heterogeneous study sample collected in a primary care setting Since patients' selection was primarily conducted by using routine claims data and secondarily by drawing a random sample selection bias...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... lie 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 ... (20) physical functioning, motor functioning, autonomy, and social functioning) three months after discharge and on one domain (indicating worse HRQoL on motor functioning) nine months after discharge ... domain (motor functioning) three months after discharge and on no domains nine months after discharge Large effect sizes were found on one domain three and nine months after discharge: indicating...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... recruitment This investigation relied upon interview data from the Carolina Oral Health Literacy (COHL) Project [30], a study exploring OHL in a low-income population of caregivers in the Women, Infants, ... (WIC) in North Carolina (NC) Non-random WIC sites in counties in NC were selected using certain criteria including geographic region, rural/urban makeup, population demographics, active WIC clinics ... well-represented in the study sample In this approach, individuals in pre-determined minority groups (African Americans and American Indians in the COHL study) are targeted preferentially and recruited into...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... ketazolam), (b) selective serotonin/ noradrenergic reuptake inhibitors (citalopram, duloxetine, escitalopram, fluoxetine, fluvoxamine, mirtazapine, paroxetine, sertraline, venlafaxine, and trazodone (SSRI/ ... according to clinical evidence and international scientific societies [40-42] This aspect also appears with fluoxetine and citalopram, in both groups analysed In Spain, according to the indication ... important information about the clinical management of these patients From this, it would be important to consider the need for a continuing training of clinicians in this type of condition, reviewing...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:21

... changes in processes of care [7] However, twelve months was likely insufficient to distinguish between improvement in clinical performance and improvement in data collection systems In quality improvement ... improvement intervention trials, longer follow-up periods are commonly advocated for the sake of better ascertaining sustained improvement [12,35] In the setting of clinical practices adopting quality improvement ... Implementing Evidence-based Practice, Roudebush VAMC, Indianapolis, IN, USA, 2Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, IU School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, ...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... ICUs in non-teaching hospitals in order to motivate them to implement quality indicators, and to the education in quality improvement concepts for both those working in ICUs in non-teaching hospitals ... quality indicators leads to reliable benchmark data for ICUs (n=140) 9) M onitoring of quality indicators fits into the daily routines in the hospital setting (n=140) 10) M onitoring of quality indicators ... review, including studies dealing with healthcare professionals' attitude to quality and quality improvement [22] These studies assessed healthcare professionals' enabling factors for quality improvement...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23