The assessment of quality of care is becoming increasingly important in healthcare, both globally and in the Netherlands. The Dutch Minister of Health declared 2015 to be the year of transparency, thereby aiming to improve quality of care by transparent reporting of outcome data. With the increasing importance of transparency, knowledge on quality measurement will be essential for a cardiologis...

Using three years of state inpatient discharge data from thirteen states, we computed, for each hospital, race/ethnicity-specific quality measures using the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality inpatient quality indicators and patient safety indicators. We found that risk-adjusted quality indicators for blacks, Hispanics, and Asians were not statistically worse than corresponding quality ...

AIM This paper reports on a study of research use among nurses two years after graduation, as well as changes over time in research use in relation to changes in working conditions. BACKGROUND The demand for evidence-based practice is widely expressed, and newly graduated nurses should possess the skills to provide high-quality care based on the best knowledge available. The way in which nurs...

Innovation is essential to ongoing improvements in quality healthcare, yet healthcare institutions continue to struggle with the challenge of how best to operationalize the multiple commitments to risk minimization, accountability, the defensible use of resources and quality innovative practices. An ideal pathway would be one that adheres to both the ethical values of the institution in which t...

This is the story of the martyrdom of an idea, an organization that embodied that idea, its director, and a group of staff and volunteers committed to making it work. The idea is that the comparable outcomes of hospital care should be measured and publicly reported so people could choose high quality care. This idea was embodied in a small organization called Greater Cleveland Health Quality Ch...