Legal Mechanisms to Improve Quality of Care in Canadian Hospitals

A 10 year (2000–2010) systematic review of interventions to improve quality of care in hospitals

BACKGROUND Against a backdrop of rising healthcare costs, variability in care provision and an increased emphasis on patient satisfaction, the need for effective interventions to improve quality of care has come to the fore. This is the first ten year (2000-2010) systematic review of interventions which sought to improve quality of care in a hospital setting. This review moves beyond a broad as...

investigating cda tendency and critical thinking abilities of iranian translation students in relation to their translation quality

امروزه مسئله ی اساسی در رویکرد های جدید زبانشناسی، ابعاد اجتماعی و ایدئولوژیک زبان تلقی می شود. گروه های مختلف اجتماعی، سیاسی و یا مذهبی از زبان به عنوان ابزاری برای دستیابی به اهداف درون گروهی خود استفاده می کنند (ون دایک، 2003). آنها معولا ایدئولوژی خود را صریحا ابراز نمی کنند بلکه آن را در غالب کلمات و ساختارهای زبانی پنهان نگه می دارند. تشخیص ایدئولوژی های پنهان در گفتمان نیازمند این موضوع ...

Perceptions of barriers to high-quality palliative care in hospitals.

The Canadian Bladder Cancer Network: efforts to improve patient care.

T he Canadian Bladder Cancer Network (CBCN) should be applauded for their reports on the experience at a national level with radical cystectomy for bladder cancer. 1 Such reports identify deficits for us, as urologists and allied physicians, to improve the care of our patients with bladder cancer. In this paper, the CBCN has addressed the outcomes of one of the most challenging patient groups (...

Tweeting and Treating: How Hospitals Use Twitter to Improve Care.

Hospitals that have adopted Twitter primarily use it to share organizational news, provide general health care information, advertise upcoming community events, and foster networking. The purpose of this study was to explore the benefits that Twitter utilization has had in improving quality of care, access to care, patient satisfaction, and community footprint while assessing the barriers to it...