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Quality Management in Health Care. 13:1-16
PURPOSE To provide guidance on using measurement to support the conduct of local quality improvement projects that will strengthen the evaluation of results and increase their potential for publication. TARGET GROUP Individuals leading quality improv
Autor:
John H. Sanders, Stephen K. Plume
Publikováno v:
Current Opinion in Cardiology. 17:183-187
There are encouraging reports of satisfactory long-term experiences with second-generation stent-mounted glutaraldehyde-fixed pericardial aortic valve prostheses. Durability has improved, but the issue has not been completely resolved. There is disag
Autor:
Stephen K. Plume
Publikováno v:
Frontiers of Health Services Management. 17:29-33
Autor:
Paul B. Batalden, Stephen K. Plume, Victoria Kahn, Mark E. Splaine, Marjorie M. Godfrey, Eugene C. Nelson, AnnMarie Hess
Publikováno v:
The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement. 26:667-685
Article-at-a-Glance Background The purpose of this article is to help clinicians expand their use of data to improve medical practice performance and to do improvement research. Clinical practices can be viewed as small, complex organizations (micros
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Stephen K. Plume, John D. Birkmeyer, Charles A.S. Marrin, Christopher T. Maloney, Felix Hernandez, Elaine M. Olmstead, Bruce J. Leavitt, Hebe B. Quinton, David C. Charlesworth, Nancy J. O. Birkmeyer, Jeremy R. Morton, Gerald T. O'Connor, Lawrence J. Dacey, Robert A. Clough, William C. Nugent
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The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 66:1323-1328
Background . It is well known that surgeon-specific in-hospital mortality rates for coronary artery bypass grafting vary, but this aggregate measure does not suggest specific opportunities for improvement. Methods . We performed a regional prospectiv
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Frontiers of Health Services Management. 15:3-32
How can healthcare leaders stay ahead of the curve? What can they do to see what the future holds and to secure a place for their employees and their organizations? They must begin doing today what they need to do to survive tomorrow. Furthermore, th
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Quality Management in Health Care. 5:52-62
In today's environment, health care organizations are expected to provide the best possible care at the lowest possible cost. Neither aspect can be considered independently, but correlating the two with traditional systems of cost analysis is very di
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Quality Management in Health Care. 5:28-40
Patients' perceptions provide valuable insight into areas for improvement and opportunities for strategic planning. Using both quantitative and qualitative research methods, the topics of what drives patient satisfaction, what delights patients, and
Autor:
Patricia Stoltz, John Wisniewski, Julie J. Mohr, Eugene C. Nelson, John H. Wasson, Paul B. Batalden, Baker Gr, Mark E. Splaine, Stephen K. Plume
Publikováno v:
Quality Management in Health Care. 5:41-51
Today's primary care provider faces the challenge of caring for individual patients as well as caring for populations of patients. This article offers a model--the panel management process--for understanding and managing these activities and relation
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Eugene C. Nelson, Nathaniel W. Niles, William G. Swartz, Elizabeth Wolf, Jonathan Robb, Stephen K. Plume, William C. Nugent, William C. Schults, Geoffrey Tarbox
Publikováno v:
The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement. 22:323-335
Article-at-a-Glance Background In early 1993 leaders within the Hitchcock Clinic and cardiac services section at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (Lebanon, NH) formed the Cardiac Services Improvement Group (CSIG) as a pilot program for patient-cent