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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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Children's Hospitals' Solutions for Patient Safety Collaborative Impact on Hospital-Acquired Harm.
Anne Lyren,Richard J. Brilli,Karen Zieker,Miguel Marino,Stephen E. Muething,Stephen E. Muething,Paul J. Sharek +6 more
TL;DR: Participation in a structured collaborative dedicated to implementing HAC-related best-practice prevention bundles and culture of safety interventions designed to increase the use of high-reliability organization practices resulted in significant HAC and SSE reductions.
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A Hospital-wide Quality-Improvement Collaborative to Reduce Catheter-Associated Bloodstream Infections
Derek S. Wheeler,Derek S. Wheeler,Mary Jo Giaccone,Nancy Hutchinson,Mary Haygood,Pattie Bondurant,Kathy Demmel,Uma R. Kotagal,Uma R. Kotagal,Beverly Connelly,Beverly Connelly,Melinda S. Corcoran,Kristin Line,Kate Rich,Pamela J. Schoettker,Richard J. Brilli +15 more
TL;DR: A hospital-wide QIC resulted in a significant reduction in the incidence of CA BSI at the authors' children's hospital and proves a collaborative model based on improvement science methodology is both feasible and effective in reducing the incidence.
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What Is Evidence-Based Behavior Analysis?
TL;DR: Recognizing the need for synthesis offers behavior analysts many promising opportunities to build on their existing research to increase the quality and quantity of evidence-based practices.
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Nurse mentorship to improve the quality of health care delivery in rural Rwanda
Manzi Anatole,Manzi Anatole,Hema Magge,Hema Magge,Hema Magge,Vanessa J. Redditt,Adolphe Karamaga,Saleh Niyonzima,Peter Drobac,Peter Drobac,Peter Drobac,Joia S. Mukherjee,Joia S. Mukherjee,Joia S. Mukherjee,Joseph Ntaganira,Laetitia Nyirazinyoye,Lisa R. Hirschhorn +16 more
TL;DR: Rwandan nurse-mentors trained in quality improvement and mentoring techniques were integrated into the MOH's district supervisory team to provide ongoing, on-site individual mentorship to health center nurses and to drive systems-level quality improvement activities.
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Theoretical and Practical Considerations for Combating Mental Illness Stigma in Health Care
TL;DR: This paper intends to address the gap in published literature on how to build and deliver successful anti-stigma programs in healthcare settings, towards healthcare providers in general, or towards specific types of practitioners by providing a set of theoretical considerations for guiding the design and implementation of anti-Stigma interventions in healthcare.