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The Improvement Guide: A Practical Approach to Enhancing Organizational Performance
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The slogan for quality improvement is, simply, “all improvements involve changes but not all changes are improvements,” and ENM employs this model and method to teach providers in SBHCs to identify practice changes that will lead to improved patient care and help reduce health care costs.About:
The article was published on 1996-11-13 and is currently open access. It has received 2544 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Organizational performance.read more
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Teaching residents about practice-based learning and improvement.
TL;DR: No difference was found between intervention residents and controls in the assessment of their ability to apply improvement knowledge, which suggests that workshops and PIPs alone will not lead to competence in PBLI.
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Impact of a transition program with navigator on loss to follow-up, medication adherence, and appointment attendance in hemoglobinopathies.
Brooke Allemang,Brooke Allemang,Kate Allan,Colleen Johnson,Colleen Johnson,Melina Cheong,Patrina Cheung,Isaac Odame,Richard Ward,Richard Ward,Suzan Williams,Geetha Mukerji,Geetha Mukerji,Kevin H.M. Kuo,Kevin H.M. Kuo +14 more
TL;DR: Whether a transition program with transition navigator (TN) reduced loss to follow‐up and hospitalizations and improved medication adherence and appointment attendance compared with an unstructured transfer is determined.
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Identifying the challenges and facilitators of implementing a COPD care bundle.
TL;DR: The challenges encountered by clinical teams implementing a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) care bundle are investigated and actions taken to overcome these challenges are described.
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An approach to hospital quality improvement.
TL;DR: The case illustrates how in one project a team needs to address all of the challenges to improving hospital quality, and the approach taken by the team to change the discharge form showed detailed understanding of the process of discharging a patient from the hospital.
SECTION 1: EVIDENCE-BASED QUALITY IMPROVEMENT, PRINCIPLES, AND PERSPECTIVES Quality Improvement Methods in Clinical Medicine
TL;DR: How clinicians can use basic methods of quality improvement to impact the clinical practice of medicine are described and four habits are believed to be essential for health care organizations and individual clinicians to adopt to bring about real improvement in the clinicalpractice of medicine.