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Improving Health Care Quality Through Public Reporting and a Reward System

Leapfrog Group, 2009). That report made the astounding observation that more deaths (some 98,000) result from preventable mistake...

Local Health Care And Quality Improvement

medical issues are not handled when they first occur. The change toward greater quality from an administrative standpoint i...

Quality Improvement in Health Care

than nurses, executives and managers at those hospitals. St. Lukes Medical Center St. Lukes is a 154-bed hospital located in S...

Medical Error and Quality Care

of a busy dermatological practice. This dermatologist see as many as 100 patients a day and is known as an "expert in the evaluati...

Collaboration, Accountability, Improving Quality of Care

This research paper pertains to the challenges confronting a hospital and the manner in which the hospital resolved them. Five pag...

Literature Review of Terminal Cancer Patients and Hospital Care Quality

is important to note aspects of hospitalization which are perceived by patients dying of cancer as negative experiences that incre...

Quality of Life and Health Care Policies

In five pages this paper examines public policy with regard to health care in a consideration of whether or not it is improving th...

Patient Care Quality and Nurse Staffing

In six pages this paper considers studies that explore the link between patient care quality and nurse staffing. Five sources are...

Health Care Delivery and Quality Control Issues

In twenty pages this paper examines health care delivery in terms of the need for quality control and also discusses various relat...

Home Health Care Quality Enhancement

In six pages the home health care environment is the focus of this performance enhancement evaluation. Eight sources are cited in...

Home Health Care Performance Improvement Quality Assessment

In ten pages this literature review on home health care focuses upon performance improvement in a quality assessment that is based...

Quality in Health Care and the Effects of Agency Nurses

In seventeen pages this research paper examines the U.S. system of health care in terms of the empirical studies that indicate the...

Health Care Quality, Nursing Job Satisfaction, and a Review of a Nursing Journal Article VI

In two pages an article featured in a nursing journal is reviewed that considers the correlation between patient health care quali...

Federal Spending and Quality Care in Hospitals

2005). Theres little doubt, however, that spending in Medicaid has been on the rise - and this has constituted a huge problem (Bec...

National Health Service Performance Assessment

the polices and feeling ion the country there probably would still have been a National Health Service without him, but he also sh...

Neuman Systems Theory of Nursing

is three times the average for all other age groups (AOA, 2010). Average doctor visits in a year were 6.5 for ages 65 to 74 and 7....

Management Concepts

even e the source of a competitive advantage (Mintzberg et al, 2008). By comparison the purchase of a small ticket items, ...

Patient Satisfaction As An Indication of Clinical Quality

Agency for Healthcare and Quality as "doing the right thing, at the right time, in the right way, for the right person-and having ...

Should the US Adopt a Universal Healthcare System?

potential for a greater degree of efficiency. The question is whether not there should be a universal healthcare system adopted in...

Performance Management through Clinical Supervision of Nurses in the NHS; Professional, Legal and Ethical Perspectives

Furthermore they state that is a strategic approach which relates to all aspects of an organization within the context the culture...

Improving Management at Shannondale

economic positions (McGinn and Murr, 2006). All of this development in the past several years has led to a restatement of Shannon...

Polarity Management

are problems, the use of critical thinking models or other problem solving tool will help to find an effective resolution. The pro...

Quality within Australian Nursing

quality and safety for the care they can expect to receive from nurses and midwives and other health professionals are the same" (...

Quality Improvement/Pressure Ulcers

a "collaborative quality improvement project" that focuses on PUs in nursing homes as its primary focus (Lynn, et al, 2007). QIOs,...

Article Analysis: Hospice and Non-Hospice Care

is defined differently than it is for healthier people; the terminally ill may consider that they have a good quality of life if t...

OBRA 87: Achieving its Potential

facilities that it was intended to achieve. Looking at more specific indicators, however, one can see from the literature review ...

Tools to aid with Quality Implementations in a Home Care Agency to Help Reduce Fall Incident Rates

populations in other settings (Gray-Miceli, 2007). The aim of this risk model is to identify adults which are most likely to be at...

Nursing Home Injuries: A Review of the Literature

number of patients, in other words) and the incidence of injury at nursing homes, making this correlation a worthwhile problem to ...

Disparities in Health Care Access

Not every American has the same opportunity to access and receive quality health care services. There are a number of social, econ...

Tone and Expectations of Nursing Managers' Role

This research paper discusses how nursing managers establish a workplace culture that supports the delivery of quality patient car...