SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Quality Improvement Tools Healthcare

Essays 1 - 30

Quality Improvement Tools Healthcare

or the frequency level of falls in terms of overall patient numbers. For quality improvement to take place it is necessary not onl...

eHealth Tools of Quality Improvement

inform them as to the quality of care that home care agencies in their region are capable of providing for themselves or family me...

Improving Quality in the Healthcare Sector

(2007), propose a definition where the different stakeholders; including the clinicians, patients and others such as researchers, ...

QI Questions

for example the use of different Total Quality Management (TQM) tools (Mintzberg et al, 2008). The use of performance measurement ...

Healthcare and Continuous Quality Improvement

to produce better outcomes for patients and improve the conduct and performance of nurses and other health care employees on a dai...

Overview of the Evaluation and Quality Improvement Program by the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards

of standards with sets of criteria that must achieved. Standards related to information management span the operations of the orga...

Implementing a Long Term Quality Management Strategy at Hotel Escargo

service environment and the role of the employees is of paramount importance, as they are a key element in the provision of the se...

Managing Quality and Risk Management in a Mental Health Environment

healthcare the purpose and key concepts in the general healthcare environment and in a mental healthcare facility and the identifi...

Planning an Improvement

to increase communication, and give general feedback, new abut the firm and recognise good performance of individuals and support ...

How Regulatory Agencies have Improved Outcomes

(Chen et al, 2003). Accreditation has been identified as a measure of quality, but whether this results in measurable difference...

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...

The Failure of Health Issues of the Homeless to Be Addressed by NHS Policies

The homeless population in the UK suffer a high level of inequality in terms of quality and access to healthcare services. The pap...

Quality Indicators and Nurse/Patient Ratios

literature and also "analysis of ICD-9-CM codes," which were reviewed by a "clinician panel," offering specific IQs that address i...

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...

Managed Care and Heathcare Costs

In eight pages this paper considers healthcare's rising costs and how quality is occasionally compromised by the growing trend of ...

Disease Management/Hypertension

management (DM) concept Disease management (DM) is defined as a "systematic clinical improvement process," which addresses both ...

Data Collection Tools/Patient Safety

This research paper addresses selection of data collection and other relevant tools for use in a quality improvement project that...

TQM in the Hospital Setting

hospital setting but wrote, "The lack of empirical research fails to provide support to claims that TQM reconciles trade-offs betw...

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...

Smith & White Vs Makatume Case Study

are demanding higher voltages. Both companies are now faced with another possible entrant into the market that could upset their...

An Article on Improving Nursing Homes Reviewed

the nursing homes as well as greater accountability. Accountability is achieved through the requirement for the nursing home to su...

Effective Healthcare Management

This research paper pertains to the fact that a variety of tools have been designed in order to identify and assess the competenci...

Higher Education and Quality Improvement

In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at higher education and quality improvement initiatives. Los Angeles Community College i...

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 ...

CA Prison Health Care/Article Analysis

training" (Murphy, 2005, p. 23). As a prisoner, the author observed prison culture from the perspective of a participant. Various ...

Should America Adopt a Universal Healthcare System?

with only 13% of white non Hispanic citizens being uninsured compared with 17% of Asians/Pacific Islanders, 22% of blacks and 36%...

BUSINESS TOOL TEMPLATES: AN ANALYSIS

also useful for the health care plans that are bidding on the business - it lets them know who the competition is, and where they ...

Quality Improvement at T.A. Stearns' Offsite Programmers

team that works together and is comprised of individuals committed to the success of the team. On the other, the manager ne...

Improvement and the Malcolm Baldrige Quality Award Framework

to an American company for recognition of excellence. Companies that receive the award have been Motorola in 1988, Millike...

Blood Banks, ISO 9000, and Quality Assurance

In twenty pages this paper considers blood banks and the Red Cross in a consideration of quality improvement and the quality assur...