Research questions The paper explores which type of quality aspects (structure, process, outcome) most strongly determines patients' overall assessment of healthcare, and whether there is a variation ...
Correspondence to Dr Ian Leistikow, Medical Specialist Care, Dutch Healthcare Inspectorate, PO Box 2518, 6401DA Heerlen, The Netherlands; ip.leistikow{at}igz.nl The purpose of these systems is also ...
Correspondence to Professor Paul Batalden, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Lebanon, NH 03766, USA; paul.batalden{at}gmail.com Our interactions during the Colloquium ...
Background Developing and updating high-quality guidelines requires substantial time and resources. To reduce duplication of effort and enhance efficiency, we developed a process for guideline ...
1 Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK 2 NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK Correspondence to: Dr S Gilbody Senior Lecturer ...
Correspondence to: A Clarke Institute of Community Health Sciences, Queen Mary, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London E1 4NS; a.e.clarkeqmul.ac.uk The value of readmission to ...
Correspondence to Dr Craig G Gunderson, Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA; craig.gunderson{at}va.gov Background ...
Background Those working in healthcare today are challenged more than ever before to quickly and efficiently learn from data to improve their services and delivery of care. There is broad agreement ...
‘The Problem with…’ series covers controversial topics related to efforts to improve healthcare quality, including widely recommended but deceptively difficult strategies for improvement and pervasive ...
Correspondence to Dr Milisa Manojlovich, School of Nursing, University of Michigan School of Nursing, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA; mmanojlo{at}umich.edu Background Despite decades of research and ...
Objective: To determine whether the use of verbal descriptors suggested by the European Union (EU) such as “common” (1–10% frequency) and “rare” (0.01–0.1%) effectively conveys the level of risk of ...
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