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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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Getting it right: Educating professionals to work together in improving health and health care
Linda A. Headrick,Nabila Khaleel +1 more
TL;DR: This paper is based on a lecture given by LAH as the 2nd John Horder lecture at Imperial College, London on 11 April 2006, which was an honor to give a lecture in tribute to Dr Horder.
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Is Preventable Harm the Right Patient Safety Metric
TL;DR: The hospital's significant decrease in serious safety events, mortality, and preventable harm is outlined and the Preventable Harm Index is used as a measure of progress and as a metric to motivate improvement.
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The gas cylinder, the motorcycle and the village health team member: a proof-of-concept study for the use of the Microsystems Quality Improvement Approach to strengthen the routine immunization system in Uganda.
Dorothy A. Bazos,Lea R Ayers LaFave,Gautham Suresh,Kevin C. Shannon,Fred Nuwaha,Mark E Splaine +5 more
TL;DR: The sustained improvements in local RI systems from this study provide evidence that this approach may be an effective framework for enhancing the WHO’s Reaching Every District (RED) immunization strategy.
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Designing authentic assessment: strategies for nurse educators.
TL;DR: This article describes features, approaches, and examples of authentic assessment processes in the context of classroom, clinical, and online nursing education.
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Using a Unit Assessment Tool to Optimize Patient Flow and Staffing in a Community Hospital
John D. Rozich,Roger Resar +1 more
TL;DR: The key to regulating patient flow has been to adopt a nursing-initiated capping trust policy whereby nurses are given the authority to limit new admissions, which appears to have contributed to a dramatic increase in staff satisfaction.