QUALITY CARE: BETTER TRAINING FOR BETTER DIRECT CARE WORKERS

Better training, Better care: Medical Procedures Training Initiative

Training in procedures has been identified as the top priority for core medical trainees (GMC trainee survey 2011). Current practice relies on each trainee being lucky enough to encounter each procedure during clinical rotations and during on-calls. Where trainees are not lucky enough, they are entering their registrar years without the skills to efficiently lead the medical 'on-take'.(1) This ...

Better care, better life.

Title Better Care, Better Life Author(s) Akita, Sadanori Citation The International Journal of Lower Extremity Wounds, 11(2), p.76; 2012 Issue Date 2012-06 URL http://hdl.handle.net/10069/31917 Right The final, definitive version of this paper has been published in The International Journal of Lower Extremity Wounds, 11(2), June 2012 by SAGE Publications Ltd, All rights reserved. © 2012 by SAGE...

Better care, fewer suicides?

Cancer Quality Alliance: Blueprint for a better cancer care system.

The Cancer Quality Alliance (CQA), a national alliance advocating for improvements in the quality of cancer care in America, presents a set of 5 case studies that depict a vision of quality cancer care and a "Blueprint" for actions to realize this vision. The CQA Blueprint case studies feature patients with soft tissue sarcoma, breast cancer, rectal cancer, and Hodgkin disease and focus on key ...

Does better quality of care for falls and urinary incontinence result in better participant-reported outcomes?

OBJECTIVES To determine whether delivery of better quality of care for urinary incontinence (UI) and falls is associated with better participant-reported outcomes. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING Assessing Care of Vulnerable Elders Study 2 (ACOVE-2). PARTICIPANTS Older (≥ 75) ambulatory care participants in ACOVE-2 who screened positive for UI (n = 133) or falls or fear of fall...