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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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Did a quality improvement collaborative make stroke care better? A cluster randomized trial
Maxine Power,Pippa J. Tyrrell,Pippa J. Tyrrell,Anthony Rudd,Mary P. Tully,David Dalton,Martin Marshall,Ian Chappell,Delphine Corgié,Donald A. Goldmann,Dale Webb,Mary Dixon-Woods,Gareth Parry +12 more
TL;DR: Some aspects of stroke care improved during the quality improvement collaboratives, but the effects of the BTS QIC were modest and further improvement is needed.
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Improving Timeliness of Antibiotic Delivery for Patients With Fever and Suspected Neutropenia in a Pediatric Emergency Department
Diana Volpe,Stephanie Harrison,Fran Damian,Pratik Rachh,Prerna S. Kahlon,Lisa Morrissey,Jennifer W. Mack,Jennifer W. Mack,Ayobami T. Akenroye,Anne M. Stack +9 more
TL;DR: A multidisciplinary team approach and standardization of the process of care were effective in reducing the time from arrival to antibiotic delivery for febrile neutropenic patients in the pediatric emergency department.
Improving the Health of Adolescents & Young Adults: A Guide for States and Communities.
Claire D. Brindis,M. Jane Park,L. Teresa Valderrama,Caron M. Lee,Rebecca Margolis,Lloyd J. Kolbe,Angeli P. Achrekar,Casey Hannan,Trina M. Anglin +8 more
TL;DR: This paper presents a meta-analysis of existing research on adolescent health and its implications for adolescent and young adult health in the United States and suggests that improving the health of adolescents and young adults should be a national priority.
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Organisational readiness: exploring the preconditions for success in organisation-wide patient safety improvement programmes
TL;DR: This preliminary work would suggest that prior to the start of organisation-wide quality- and safety-improvement programmes, organisations would benefit from an assessment of readiness with time spent in the preparation of the organisational infrastructure, processes and culture.
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The impact of a large-scale quality improvement programme on work engagement: Preliminary results from a national cross-sectional-survey of the ‘Productive Ward’
TL;DR: It is demonstrated how QI activities, like those integral to the Productive Ward programme, appear to positively impact on the work engagement of ward-based teams, with both clerical and nurse manager grades, and the elderly specialist areas, exhibiting substantially higher scores.