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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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Leadership and organizational change for implementation (LOCI): a randomized mixed method pilot study of a leadership and organization development intervention for evidence-based practice implementation.
TL;DR: The results of this study suggest that LOCI may be a viable strategy to support organizations in preparing for the implementation and sustainment of EBP.
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Family-Centered Bedside Rounds: A New Approach to Patient Care and Teaching
Stephen E. Muething,Uma R. Kotagal,Pamela J. Schoettker,Javier A. Gonzalez del Rey,Thomas G. DeWitt +4 more
TL;DR: A multidisciplinary improvement team at Cincinnati Children's Hospital developed and implemented a new process that allows families to decide if they want to be part of attending-physician rounds, which seems to improve communication, shares decision-making, and offers new learning for residents and students.
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How to study improvement interventions: a brief overview of possible study types
TL;DR: An overview of possible methods for the study of improvement interventions is offered, noting that designs that are better suited to the evaluation of clearly defined and static interventions may be adopted without giving sufficient attention to the challenges associated with the dynamic nature of improved interventions and their interactions with contextual factors.
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Analysis of clinical incidents: a window on the system not a search for root causes
TL;DR: New risk management and patient safety programmes-whether local or national-rely on incident reporting to provide data on the nature of safety problems and to provide indications of the causes of those problems and the likely solutions.
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Developing and testing the health literacy universal precautions toolkit
Darren A. DeWalt,Kimberly A. Broucksou,Victoria Hawk,Cindy Brach,Ashley Hink,Rima E. Rudd,Leigh F. Callahan +6 more
TL;DR: The HLUP Toolkit holds promise as a means of improving primary care for people with limited health literacy, but further testing is needed.