Prioritizing information for quality improvement using resident assessment instrument data: experiences in one canadian province.
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This work reflects the beginning of a process to better understand how providers and policy makers can work together to assess priorities for quality improvement within continuing care.About:
This article is published in Health Policy.The article was published on 2011-03-04 and is currently open access. It has received 11 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Long-term care & Quality management.read more
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A Patient-Based Needs Assessment for Living Well with Parkinson Disease: Implementation via Nominal Group Technique
TL;DR: The results of this survey will inform the development of a patient-oriented, online resource to provide information and strategies to improve symptom management, reduce disability and address all relevant concerns important to those affected by PD.
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Informing the ‘early years’ agenda in Scotland: understanding infant feeding patterns using linked datasets
Omotomilola Ajetunmobi,Bruce Whyte,James D. Chalmers,Michael Fleming,Diane Stockton,Rachael Wood +5 more
TL;DR: The development of a unique population-wide resource created to explore infant feeding and child health in Scotland and the results confirmed the importance of an enabling environment—cultural, family, health service and other maternal and infant health-related factors—in increasing the likelihood to breast feed.
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What factors contribute to positive early childhood health and development in Australian Aboriginal children? Protocol for a population-based cohort study using linked administrative data (The Seeding Success Study)
Kathleen Falster,Kathleen Falster,Louisa Jorm,Louisa Jorm,Sandra Eades,John Lynch,Emily Banks,Marni Brownell,Rhonda Craven,Kristjana Einarsdóttir,Deborah Randall,Deborah Randall +11 more
TL;DR: The impact of two government programmes that aim to address early childhood disadvantage, the NSW Aboriginal Maternal and Infant Health Service and the Brighter Futures Program are evaluated and the contributions of individual-level and area-level factors to variation in early childhood development outcomes in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children are quantify.
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The uptake and use of a minimum data set (MDS) for older people living and dying in care homes: a realist review
Massirfufulay Kpehe Musa,Gizdem Akdur,Sarah Brady,Anne Killett,Karen Spilsbury,Guy Peryer,Jennifer K Burton,Adam L. Gordon,Barbara Hanratty,Ann-Marie Towers,Lisa Irvine,Sarah Kelly,Liz Jones,Julienne Meyer,Claire Goodman +14 more
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors developed a theory-driven understanding of how care home staff can effectively implement and use minimum data sets (MDS) to plan and deliver care for residents.
Using International Collaborations To Shape Research And Innovation Into Care Homes In Brazil: A White Paper
Alessandro Ferrari Jacinto,Wilco P. Achterberg,Patrick Alexander Wachholz,Tom Dening,K. Harrison Dening,Reena Devi,Déborah Oliveira,I. Everink,Paula S. Azevedo,P. J. F. Villas Bas,Kathryn Hinsliff-Smith,M. Hoedl,Jos M. G. A. Schols,Victoria Shepherd,A. C. M. Gratao,R. C. de Melo,H. A. W. Watanabe,M. S. Zazzetta,Claire Goodman,Karen Spilsbury,Adam L. Gordon +20 more
TL;DR: The research priorities for Brazilian long-term care homes developed as part of an international workshop held in Brazil and the UK, and attended by 71 clinicians and researchers from 6 Brazilian Universities, supported by an international faculty of 8 Brazilian, 8 British, 2 Dutch and 1 Austrian academics as discussed by the authors.
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Priority Setting of health interventions: the need for multi-criteria decision analysis
Rob Baltussen,Louis W. Niessen +1 more
TL;DR: The main principles of multi-criteria decision analysis are presented, calling for a shift away from present priority setting tools in health – that tend to focus on single criteria – towards transparent and systematic approaches that take into account all relevant criteria simultaneously.
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Development and Testing of Nursing Home Quality Indicators
David Zimmerman,Sarita L. Karon,Greg Arling,Brenda Ryther Clark,Ted Collins,Richard J. Ross,François Sainfort +6 more
TL;DR: This article reports on the development and testing of a set of indicators of quality of care in nursing homes, using resident-level assessment data, to provide a foundation for both external and internal quality-assurance and quality-improvement activities.
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Integrated health information systems based on the RAI/MDS series of instruments.
John P. Hirdes,Brant E. Fries,John N. Morris,Knight Steel,Vince Mor,Dinnus Frijters,Steve LaBine,Corinne Schalm,Michael J. Stones,Gary F. Teare,Trevor Frise Smith,Mounir Marhaba,Edgardo Pérez,Palmi V. Jonsson +13 more
TL;DR: The RAI/MDS series of assessment instruments comprise an integrated health information system because they have consistent terminology, common core items, and a common conceptual basis in a clinical approach that emphasizes the identification of functional problems.
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Randomized Clinical Trial of a Quality Improvement Intervention in Nursing Homes
Marilyn Rantz,Lori Popejoy,Gregory F. Petroski,Richard W. Madsen,David R. Mehr,Mary Zwygart-Stauffacher,Lanis L. Hicks,Victoria T. Grando,Deidre D. Wipke-Tevis,Jane Bostick,Rose Porter,Vicki S. Conn,Meridean Maas +12 more
TL;DR: It appears that only those nursing homes that sought the additional intensive support of the gerontological clinical nurse specialist were able to effect enough change in clinical practice to improve resident outcomes significantly.
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Home Care Quality Indicators (HCQIs) Based on the MDS-HC
John P. Hirdes,Brant E. Fries,John N. Morris,Naoki Ikegami,David Zimmerman,Dawn M. Dalby,Pablo Aliaga,Suzanne Hammer,Richard N. Jones +8 more
TL;DR: Home care quality indicators to be used by a variety of audiences including consumers, agencies, regulators, and policy makers to support evidence-based decision making related to the quality of home care services are developed.