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Rivett G. We've seen it all before--can we change paths? THE HEALTH SERVICE JOURNAL 2013; 123:16-17. [PMID: 24371893] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Walters G. Quality comes first. Nurs Manag (Harrow) 2013; 19:37. [PMID: 23451702] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Johnsson LA. [Legal standards built on extrajudicial rules. How science and proven experience became the beacon of medicine]. LAKARTIDNINGEN 2012; 109:1560-1562. [PMID: 23016244] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Jargin SV. [Limited access to the international medical literature in Russia]. Wien Med Wochenschr 2012; 162:272-5. [PMID: 22688620 DOI: 10.1007/s10354-012-0111-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2012] [Accepted: 03/21/2012] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Limited access to foreign professional literature in the former Soviet Union had consequences for public health: persistence of some outdated methods and approaches. Several examples are discussed in this letter. The shortage of foreign literature has been partly compensated by domestic editions, sometimes containing compilations from foreign sources, borrowings without references, and mistranslations. International literature is on average scarcely quoted in Russian language scientific publications. Today, however, there are grounds for optimism: the economic upturn must bring improvements.
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Crandall EP. Questions and answers: Some questions discussed at one of the round tables held at Chicago Institute with public health nurses. Public Health Nurs 2012; 29:91-3. [PMID: 22211756 DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1446.2011.01002.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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There were a number of issues confronting public health nurses in 1919, including the differentiation of practice between visiting nurses and public health nurses, use of community partnerships when developing a new nursing service in a community, and standards of nursing work. Other issues included the focus of nursing work at the community/population versus individual level, how to balance the work load where there was only one nurse in a community, and educating the public about the value of public health nursing to the community. In this excerpt from the original publication, Ella Phillips Crandall responded to questions raised at a round table session held in Chicago in 1919 as a part of a Public Health Nursing Forum, and then published in the October 1919 issue of The Public Health Nurse. While the social context in which PHNs worked in 1919 were significantly different from those nurses face today, these insights are prescient to the issues faced by PHNs today as the profession continues to address issues related to standards of practice, role development, and educational preparation for both entry level and advanced practice.
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Anas R, Bell R, Brown A, Evans W, Sawka C. A ten-year history: the Cancer Quality Council of Ontario. Healthc Q 2012; 15 Spec No:24-27. [PMID: 24863111 DOI: 10.12927/hcq.2012.23162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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One of the longest-established quality oversight organizations in Canadian healthcare, the Cancer Quality Council of Ontario (CQCO) is an advisory group formed in 2002 by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. Although quasi-independent from Cancer Care Ontario (CCO), the council was established to provide advice to CCO and the ministry in their efforts to improve the quality of cancer care in the province. The council is composed of a multidisciplinary group of healthcare providers, cancer survivors and experts in the areas of oncology, health system policy and administration, governance, performance measurement and health services research. Its mandate is to monitor and report publicly on the performance of the Ontario cancer system and to motivate improvement through national and international benchmarking. Since its formation, the council has played an evolving role in improving the quality of care received by Ontario cancer patients. This article will briefly describe the origins and founding principles of the CQCO, its changing role in monitoring quality and its relationship with CCO.
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Hackmann M. [The development of Jewish nursing in Hamburg: "Good reputation due to the care of its patients"]. PFLEGE ZEITSCHRIFT 2012; 65:40-42. [PMID: 22338259] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Romley JA, Goldman DP. How costly is hospital quality? A revealed-preference approach. THE JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS 2011; 59:578-608. [PMID: 22299199 PMCID: PMC3989349 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6451.2011.00468.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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We analyze the cost of quality improvement in hospitals, dealing with two challenges. Hospital quality is multidimensional and hard to measure, while unobserved productivity may influence quality supply. We infer the quality of hospitals in Los Angeles from patient choices. We then incorporate ‘revealed quality’ into a cost function, instrumenting with hospital demand. We find that revealed quality differentiates hospitals, but is not strongly correlated with clinical quality. Revealed quality is quite costly, and tends to increase with hospital productivity. Thus, non-clinical aspects of the hospital experience (perhaps including patient amenities) play important roles in hospital demand, competition, and costs.
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Abel EK. "In the last stages of irremediable disease": American hospitals and dying patients before World War II. BULLETIN OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE 2011; 85:29-56. [PMID: 21551916 DOI: 10.1353/bhm.2011.0016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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After a brief discussion of early- and mid-nineteenth-century hospitals, this article focuses on the years between 1880 and 1939, when those facilities underwent a major transformation and the proportion of hospital deaths steadily increased. During both periods, private hospitals refused admission to many seriously ill people and discharged others when death approached. City hospitals dumped poor patients with advanced disease on chronic care facilities and especially on almshouses. With each transfer, the quality of care sharply declined. And trips from one institution to another often inflicted additional suffering; some accelerated death.
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Almond D, Doyle JJ, Kowalski AE, Williams H. The role of hospital heterogeneity in measuring marginal returns to medical care: a reply to Barreca, Guldi, Lindo, and Waddell. THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS 2011; 126:2125-2131. [PMID: 22295276 DOI: 10.1093/qje/qjr037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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In Almond et al. (2010), we describe how marginal returns to medical care can be estimated by comparing patients on either side of diagnostic thresholds. Our application examines at-risk newborns near the very low birth weight threshold at 1500 g. We estimate large discontinuities in medical care and mortality at this threshold, with effects concentrated at “low-quality” hospitals. Although our preferred estimates retain newborns near the threshold, when they are excluded the estimated marginal returns decline, although they remain large. In low-quality hospitals, our estimates are similar in magnitude regardless of whether these newborns are included or excluded.
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Ortiz FM. History of Midwifery in New Mexico: Partnership Between Curandera-parteras
and the New Mexico Department of Health. J Midwifery Womens Health 2010; 50:411-7. [PMID: 16154069 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmwh.2004.12.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Curandera-parteras (traditional Hispanic midwives) have been in northern New Mexico since before its statehood. In the 1930s, the New Mexico Department of Health began a valuable relationship with the curandera-parteras through the Midwife Consultant Program. This article describes the relationship between the curandera-parteras and the New Mexico Department of Health originating in the 1920s. The amenable and effective working relationship achieved between curandera-parteras and public health during this time period helped create the positive support for midwifery that is apparent in New Mexico today.
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Iglehart JK. Facing the wild west of health care reform--Donald Berwick, pioneer. N Engl J Med 2010; 363:707-9. [PMID: 20647184 DOI: 10.1056/nejmp1007682] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Cook HJ. Borderlands: a historian's perspective on medical humanities in the US and the UK. MEDICAL HUMANITIES 2010; 36:3-4. [PMID: 21393266 DOI: 10.1136/jmh.2009.002626] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Lonsdale C, Kirkpatrick I, Hoque K, de Ruyter A. Supplier behaviour and public contracting in the English agency nursing market. PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION 2010; 88:800-818. [PMID: 20925153 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9299.2010.01846.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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The worldwide expansion in the use of private firms to deliver public services and infrastructure has promoted a substantial literature on public sector contract and relationship management. This literature is currently dominated by the notion that supplier relationships should be based upon trust. Less prominent are more sceptical approaches that emphasize the need to assiduously manage potential supplier exploitation and opportunism. This article addresses this imbalance by focusing upon the recent experience of the English National Health Service (NHS) in its dealings with its nursing agencies. Between 1997 and 2001, the NHS was subjected to considerable exploitation and opportunism. This forced managers to adopt a supply strategy based upon an assiduous use of e-auctions, framework agreements and quality audits. The article assesses the effectiveness of this strategy and reflects upon whether a more defensive approach to contract and relationship management offers a viable alternative to one based upon trust.
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Lighter M. The physician views financing of hospital and medical care. CONNECTICUT MEDICINE 2009; 73:495-498. [PMID: 19777990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Boyle BM, Palmer L, Kappelman MD. Quality of health care in the United States: implications for pediatric inflammatory bowel disease. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 2009; 49:272-82. [PMID: 19633570 PMCID: PMC4401474 DOI: 10.1097/mpg.0b013e3181a491e7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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The Institute of Medicine's publications To Error is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm publicized the widespread deficits in US health care quality. Emerging studies continue to reveal deficits in the quality of adult and pediatric care, including subspecialty care. In recent years, key stakeholders in the health care system including providers, purchasers, and the public have been applying various quality improvement methods to address these concerns. Lessons learned from these efforts in other pediatric conditions, including asthma, cystic fibrosis, neonatal intensive care, and liver transplantation may be applicable to the care of children with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).This review is intended to be a primer on the quality of care movement in the United States, with a focus on pediatric IBD. In this article, we review the history, rationale, and methods of quality measurement and improvement, and we discuss the unique challenges in adapting these general strategies to pediatric IBD care.
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Memorial Hermann wins national quality award. HOSPITAL PEER REVIEW 2009; 34:52-53. [PMID: 19453096] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Heller GV, Katanick SL, Sloper T, Garcia M. Accreditation for cardiovascular imaging: setting quality standards for patient care. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging 2009; 1:390-7. [PMID: 19356454 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2008.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2008] [Accepted: 04/03/2008] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The accreditation of laboratories performing noninvasive cardiac procedures is now routinely available and often required by insurance companies. In this article, the history of the accreditation for cardiac procedures is reviewed, the process explained, and the number of accredited laboratories listed. Decision pathways are listed, and common reasons for a laboratory being delayed in approval are described specific for the various modalities. Some of the common compliments and concerns received by the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission are described.
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in 't Veld CJ, Grol RPTM. [Practice guidelines and accreditation: highlights from 50 years of quality management by the Dutch College of General Practitioners]. NEDERLANDS TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR GENEESKUNDE 2007; 151:2916-2919. [PMID: 18257441] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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The Dutch College of General Practitioners (NHG) was established 50 years ago in response to the threatened position of general practitioners in The Netherlands. The NHG promotes quality care in general practice by aiding in the translation of scientific evidence into daily practice. The NHG practice guidelines form the core of its quality improvement programme, which comprises a cohesive package of continuing educational materials that support adoption in daily practice. The NHG practice accreditation programme is a new method for measuring and improving practice quality. This programme provides the basis for granting stamps of quality to general practices.
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Gawande A. The checklist: if something so simple can transform intensive care, what else can it do? NEW YORKER (NEW YORK, N.Y. : 1925) 2007:86-101. [PMID: 18084821] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Faria MA. Fidel Castro's medical care in the socialized Cuban paradise. SURGICAL NEUROLOGY 2007; 67:431-2. [PMID: 17350425 DOI: 10.1016/j.surneu.2007.01.066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2007] [Accepted: 01/22/2007] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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Schmacke N. Vortrag anlässlich der Verleihung der Salomon-Neumann-Medaille an den Gemeinsamen Bundesausschuss (G-BA). DAS GESUNDHEITSWESEN 2007; 69:115-9. [PMID: 17440838 DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-971051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Hudson GL. Internal influences in the making of the English military hospital: the early-eighteenth-century Greenwich. CLIO MEDICA (AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS) 2007; 81:253-272. [PMID: 18005551] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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This chapter uses records at the Royal Greenwich Hospital for ex-sailors to analyse the nature of care, and to uncover how the chronically disabled patients themselves experienced the hospital. Greenwich became a 'reverse' institution, in that the ex-servicemen were closely regulated and treated like unruly visitors, while only officers and medics had free movement and influence. Although initially the inner workings of the Hospital owed much to almshouse and shipboard models, over time medical considerations became paramount. Physicians and surgeons became involved actively in governance and discipline, promoting environmental and dietary changes.
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Pavlovskiĭ LN. [Organization of stomatological care in Russian army during first World War 1914-1917 y]. LIKARS'KA SPRAVA 2006:83-8. [PMID: 17312894] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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The article presents issues on organization of stomatological care in Russian army during First World War. The author showed reasons of low efficiency of the treatment of soldiers with maxillofacial region. Injuries beginning of a new stage in the treatment of maxillofacial region fire wounds and origin of a new specialty developed a military maxillofacial surgery.
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