نتایج جستجو برای: healthcare quality indicator

تعداد نتایج: 921898  

Introduction: One of the main challenges of the health system is improving the quality of healthcare services by adjusting the costs. The right choice of tools will bring economic savings besides excellent service quality. Since medical supplies are among the fundamental and costly elements in providing services, the expertise of purchasing has become an important and complex issue. This study ...

Journal: :Diabetes care 2007
Sunny Kim

This study describes the burden of potentially preventable hospitalizations primarily due to uncontrolled diabetes. Uncontrolled diabetes, if not managed properly, often leads to biochemical imbalances that can cause acute life-threatening events and hospitalizations. Since diabetes management relies heavily on ambulatory care, hospitalizations with uncontrolled diabetes largely reflect the qua...

2012
Saad Ahmed Ali Jadoo Sharifa Ezat Wan Puteh Zafar Ahmed Ammar Jawdat

Background Patients’ satisfaction is an indirect indicator of patients acceptance towards health management by healthcare providers. Healthcare reform of any magnitude needs to determine their external clients’ feedbacks measured through healthcare satisfaction. This study aimed to determine the level of patients’ satisfaction and its influencing factors toward the newly reformed national healt...

2014
Rosa Gini Martijn J. Schuemie Paolo Francesconi Francesco Lapi Iacopo Cricelli Alessandro Pasqua Pietro Gallina Daniele Donato Salvatore Brugaletta Andrea Donatini Alessandro Marini Claudio Cricelli Gianfranco Damiani Mariadonata Bellentani Johan van der Lei Miriam C. J. M. Sturkenboom Niek S. Klazinga

BACKGROUND Italy has a population of 60 million and a universal coverage single-payer healthcare system, which mandates collection of healthcare administrative data in a uniform fashion throughout the country. On the other hand, organization of the health system takes place at the regional level, and local initiatives generate natural experiments. This is happening in particular in primary care...

Journal: :international journal of health policy and management 2014
melody k. schiaffino mona al-amin jessica r. schumacher

background hispanics comprise 17% of the total u.s. population, surpassing african-americans as the largest minority group. linguistically, almost 60 million people speak a language other than english. this language diversity can create barriers and additional burden and risk when seeking health services. patients with limited english proficiency (lep) for example, have been shown to experience...

Journal: :زن در توسعه و سیاست 0
محمد میرزایی استاد گروه جمعیت شناسی دانشکده علوم اجتماعی دانشگاه تهران علی یاراحمدی استادیار بخش جامعه شناسی دانشگاه شیراز

during the past decade there has been an unceasing trend to reduce child and maternal mortality rate, and thus a demand to examine and address the existing challenges. despite the importance of consistent healthcare during pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum period, some iranian women are not currently using these types of services. therefore, the study on the important parameters that can lea...

اشرفی, انسیه, مصدق‌راد, علی محمد,

Background: Patient satisfaction is an important indicator of healthcare quality and effectiveness. Quality management as an organizational strategy enhances the quality of hospital services through continuously improving hospital structures and processes. This study aimed to examine the impact of quality management on patient satisfaction. Methods: A participatory action research was conduc...

Journal: :Biomedical instrumentation & technology 2012
James Welch James Moon Scott McCombie

Scott McCombie, BSBSE, is research engineer at Sotera Wireless, San Diego, CA. E-mail: scott.mccombie@ soterawireless.com Effective, efficient, and safe delivery of healthcare is dependent on the timely identification and treatment of a deteriorating patient condition. Failure to rescue patients in the early stage of physiological deterioration can result in permanent organ injury, extended med...

2012
James Welch James Moon Scott McCombie

Scott McCombie, BSBSE, is research engineer at Sotera Wireless, San Diego, CA. E-mail: scott.mccombie@ soterawireless.com Effective, efficient, and safe delivery of healthcare is dependent on the timely identification and treatment of a deteriorating patient condition. Failure to rescue patients in the early stage of physiological deterioration can result in permanent organ injury, extended med...

Journal: :international journal of health policy and management 2014
ewan ferlie

this commentary reviews a recent piece by burton and rycroft-malone on the use of resource based view (rbv) in healthcare organizations. it first outlines the core content of their piece. it then discusses their attempts to extend rbv to the analysis of large scale quality improvement efforts in healthcare. some critique is elaborated. the broader question of why rbv seems to be migrating into ...

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