Defining and evaluating quality for ambulatory care educational programs

Measuring success: Evaluating educational programs

This paper reveals a new evaluation model, which enables educational program and project managers to evaluate their programs with a simple and easy to understand approach. The “index of success model” is comprised of five parameters that enable to focus on and evaluate both the implementation and results of an educational program. The integration of these parameters forms a complete and compreh...

Indicators for Evaluating the Performance and Quality of Care of Ambulatory Care Nurses

The quality and safety of nursing care vary from one service to another. We have only very limited information on the quality and safety of nursing care in outpatient settings, an expanding area of practice. Our aim in this study was to make available, from the scientific literature, indicators potentially sensitive to nursing that can be used to evaluate the performance of nursing care in outp...

Quality Department Guidelines for Clinical Care Ambulatory

Therapy of acute otitis media • Recommend adequate analgesia for all children with AOM [I, D*]. • Consider deferring antibiotic therapy for lower risk children with AOM [II, A*]. • When antibiotic therapy is deferred, facilitate patient access to antibiotics if symptoms worsen (e.g., a "back-up" prescription given at visit or a convenient system for subsequent call-in) [I, C*]. • Amoxicillin is...

Evaluating ambulatory care training in Firoozgar hospital based on Iranian national standards of undergraduate medical education

    Background: In this study, ambulatory care training in Firoozgar hospital was evaluated based on Iranian national standards of undergraduate medical education related to ambulatory education using Baldrige Excellence Model. Moreover, some suggestions were offered to promote education quality in the current condition of ambulatory education in Firoozgar hospital and national s...

Defining quality in medical care.