Computerunterstützung des Qualitätsmanagements im Sinne von Computer Aided Quality Assurance (CAQ) und Qualitätsinformationssystemen (QIS) wird in verschieden Wirtschafszweigen bereits seit vielen Jahren erfolgreich eingesetzt. Der Beitrag untersucht inwieweit solche Systeme vor dem Hintergrund von aktuellen Anforderungen an die Unternehmen der Agrarund Ernährungsindustrie sinnvoll genutzt werd...

In 2006, the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) released a comprehensive set of quality indicators (qIs) for primary healthcare (PHC). We explored the acceptability of a subset of these as measures of the technical quality of care and the potential link to payment incentive tools. A modified delphi approach, based on the RANd consensus panel method, was used with an expert panel c...

A quanta image sensor (QIS) is a class of single-photon imaging devices that measure light intensity using oversampled binary observations. Because of the stochastic nature of the photon arrivals, data acquired by QIS is a massive stream of random binary bits. The goal of image reconstruction is to recover the underlying image from these bits. In this paper, we present a non-iterative image rec...

This study examined whether age disparities existed across postdischarge quality indicators (QIs) for veterans with ischemic stroke who received care at Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers (VAMCs). This retrospective cohort included a national sample of 3,196 veterans who were diagnosed with ischemic stroke and received acute and postdischarge stroke care at 127 VAMCs in fiscal year ...

PURPOSE There is an international consensus that quality indicators (QIs) of health care ought to represent patient-relevant aspects. Therefore, patient involvement in the development process is essential. However, there is no methodological gold standard for involving patients in QI development. The aim of this study is to explore experts' views on the representation of patient-relevant aspect...

BACKGROUND Our objective was to limit the burden of data collection for Quality Indicators (QIs) based on medical records. METHODS The study was supervised by the COMPAQH project. Four QIs based on medical records were tested: medical record conformity; traceability of pain assessment; screening for nutritional disorders; time elapsed before sending copy of discharge letter to the general pra...

• Quality and safety staff, as well as clinical and other staff (e.g., quality and/or patient safety officer at the hospital) involved in quality improvement work, should be involved in assessing the hospital’s performance on the QIs and making decisions on priorities for improvement. • Statisticians, data analysts, and programmers can help calculate the QIs using data available from the hospit...

• Quality and safety staff, as well as clinical and other staff (e.g., quality and/or patient safety officer at the hospital) involved in quality improvement work, should be involved in assessing the hospital’s performance on the QIs and making decisions on priorities for improvement. • Statisticians, data analysts, and programmers can help to calculate the QIs using data available from the hos...

We summarize work done to identify and evaluate existing quality indicators (QIs) for long-term care (LTC) settings. Indicators operationally defined using routinely collected and computerized patient assessments were identified and then aggregated to characterize the performance of the nursing facility over a specific period of time. Of 143 indicators reviewed, only 22 were recommended for use...

Baskakov operators and their inverses can be expressed as linear differential operators on polynomials. Recurrence relations are given for the computation of these coefficients. They allow the construction of the associated Baskakov quasi-interpolants (abbr. QIs). Then asymptotic results are provided for the determination of the convergence orders of these new quasi-interpolants. Finally some r...