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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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Modeling Causal Relationships in Quality Improvement
TL;DR: This paper will carefully examine both fishbone diagrams and key driver diagrams, which provide the ultimate aim of the project, identifies the drivers which will affect accomplishing the aim, and the interventions that affect the identified drivers.
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A statewide approach to systematising hand hygiene behaviour in hospitals: Clean hands save lives, Part I.
TL;DR: A statewide campaign aimed at improving compliance with hand hygiene practices in New South Wales public hospitals is described.
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Alarm safety and oxygen saturation targets in the Vermont Oxford Network iNICQ 2015 collaborative
James I. Hagadorn,David W. Sink,Madge E. Buus-Frank,Madge E. Buus-Frank,Erika M. Edwards,Kate A. Morrow,Jeffrey D. Horbar,Karla R. Ferrelli,Roger F. Soll +8 more
TL;DR: Participating NICUs showed significant progress between audits in their implementation of Joint Commission Alarm Safety goals for oximeter monitoring, and compared patient-level oxygen saturation (SpO2) and oximeter alarm data to local policies.
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A quality improvement approach to capacity building in low- and middle-income countries.
Joshua Bardfield,Bruce D. Agins,Matthew J. Akiyama,Apollo Basenero,Patience Luphala,Francina Kaindjee-Tjituka,Salomo Natanael,Ndapewa Hamunime +7 more
TL;DR: Quality improvement is an approach to capacity building and health systems strengthening that offers adaptive methodology that can lead to improvements in care, in parallel with systematic capacity development for measurement, improvement and quality management throughout the healthcare delivery system.
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Crossing the Quality Chasm for Diabetes Care: The Power of One Physician, His Team, and Systems Thinking
TL;DR: It is shown that one physician can dramatically improve care of diabetes patients by taking a systems approach and getting support from leaders and other team members, and if the work is coordinated with and supported by practice leaders.