Aligning Financial Incentives (FIs) to health policy goals is becoming increasingly popular. In many cases, such initiatives have failed to deliver anticipated benefits. Attributing this to the actions of self-interested and resistant professionals is not an entirely helpful approach. It is important to avoid simplistic assumptions to build knowledge of how and why schemes are implemented in pr...

BACKGROUND Performance of prehospital ECGs expedites identification of ST-elevation myocardial infarction and reduces door-to-balloon times for patients receiving reperfusion therapy. To fully realize this benefit, emergency medical service performance must be measured and used in feedback reporting and quality improvement. METHODS AND RESULTS This quasi-experimental design trial tested an ap...

Background—Performance of prehospital ECGs expedites identification of ST-elevation myocardial infarction and reduces door-to-balloon times for patients receiving reperfusion therapy. To fully realize this benefit, emergency medical service performance must be measured and used in feedback reporting and quality improvement. Methods and Results—This quasi-experimental design trial tested an appr...

With the rapid development of electronic commerce, the public demand for express delivery is increasing, however, there are still lack of service quality and high service complaint ratein the process of rapid development. Based on the SERVQUAL model, this paper analyzes the current situation of the whole express service industry quality, From five aspects: tangibles, reliability, responsiveness...

Hospitalists have an important role to play in identifying clinical practice and system improvements for optimizing patient care during and after hospitalization. At the 2002 annual meeting of the Society of General Internal Medicine, the Brigham and Women’s–Faulkner hospitalist service presented a workshop on the role of the hospitalist in quality improvement. The purpose of the workshop was t...

BACKGROUND Indigenous primary health-care (PHC) services participating in continuous quality improvement (CQI) cycles show varying patterns of performance over time. Understanding this variation is essential to scaling up and sustaining quality improvement initiatives. The aim of this study is to examine trends in quality of care for services participating in the ABCD National Research Partners...

recently, use of research, theory, evidence-based practice (ebp), and quality improvement (qi) has increased dramatically in the professional manuscripts and discourses of the health related literature. however, inadequate knowledge and inability to recognize the differences between these processes have led to uncertainty in some of these practices. elucidation of such processes is of paramount...