Improving Health Care Quality

Improving the quality of health care.

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Improving health care quality: current concepts.

According to the 1999 Institute of Medicine To Err is Human report, poor quality health care extracts a terrible toll, taking up to 100,000 American lives annually, more than breast cancer, motor vehicular accidents and AIDS combined. At the same time, another 770,000 people are injured in hospitals. Beyond the personal losses, society pays an enormous price, estimated to be between $37-50 bill...

Improving the quality of mental health care.

OBJECTIVE To develop international guidance for improving the quality of mental health care in low- and middle-income countries. DESIGN A panel developed recommendations based on a comprehensive literature review, consultation with over 100 experts from 46 countries and an analysis of international best practices. Recommendations A 5-pronged approach to improving the quality of mental health ...

Health literacy: improving quality of care in primary care settings.

A 78 year old woman struggles to read the label on her prescription bottle. She knows she needs to take her blood pressure medication, but cannot read the label on the bottle to determine which one is her blood pressure medicine, nor how many she should take, so she picks one. She remembers the doctor told her to take the medicine twice a day so she takes two pills at one time. In an exam room,...

Controlling health costs and improving health care quality for retirees.