Improving Quality in Healthcare

Improving Safety and Quality in Healthcare

NICE quality standards: improving healthcare quality in the English NHS?

The UK's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is best known in primary care for its production since 2001 of evidence-based clinical guidelines covering a wide range of clinical conditions. 1 More recently, NICE guidelines have become further integrated into UK primary care through their development into performance measures for the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) payme...

Strategies for improving minority healthcare quality.

Organization: Johns Hopkins University Evidence-based Practice Center Author: Beach, Mary Catherine Author: Cooper, Lisa A. Author: Robinson, Karen A. Author: Price, Eboni G. Author: Gary, Tiffany L. Author: Jenckes, Mollie W. Author: Gozu, Aysegul Author: Smarth, Carole Author: Palacio, Ana Author: Feuerstein, Carolyn J. Author: Bass, Eric B. Author: Powe, Neil R. Published Date: 2004 http://w...

Implementation of Consolidated HIS: Improving Quality and Efficiency of Healthcare

OBJECTIVES Adoption of hospital information systems offers distinctive advantages in healthcare delivery. First, implementation of consolidated hospital information system in Seoul National University Hospital led to significant improvements in quality of healthcare and efficiency of hospital management. METHODS THE HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM IN SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CONSISTS OF...

Reforming payments to healthcare providers: the key to slowing healthcare cost growth while improving quality?

This paper focuses on a broad movement toward a fundamentally different way of paying healthcare providers. The approach reaches beyond the old dichotomies about whether healthcare providers are reimbursed on a fee-for-service or a "capitated" or per-person payment. Instead, these reforms seek to create direct linkages between payments to healthcare providers and measures of the quality and eff...