PCV66 COMPARING QUALITY OF CARE: IS IT MEANINGFUL?

Meaningful use and quality of care.

Thymoma calcification: Is it clinically meaningful?

Among anterior mediastinal lesions, thymoma is the most common. Thymomas are tumors of thymic epithelial cell origin that are distinguished by inconsistent histological and biologic behavior. Chest imaging studies typically show a round or lobulated tumor in the anterior mediastinum. Calcifications in thymomas are classically punctuate or amorphous, positioned within the lesion. Chest computed ...

Writing qualitative article: It is time to quality improvement

Précis: This debate article highlights some questions from critics of qualitative research. Planning for proper design, philosophical background, researcher as a research instrument in the study, trustworthiness and application of findings are main debates in this field. One of the issues that have been received little attention is report of qualitative inquiry. A qualified report can an...

Part 1: Quality of care--what is it?

David Blumenthal, Quality of Health Care, Part 1: Quality of Care: What Is It? New England Journal of Medicine 335(12):891-894. 1996. • quality of care is hard de ne: • Donabedian (1980): care which is expected to maximize an inclusive measure of patient welfare, after one has taken account of the balance of expected gains and losses that attend the process of care in all its parts • American M...

Quality in health care: whose responsibility is it?

* This paper was commissioned for the CME Seminar held under the auspices of the American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians, Clearwater, Florida, February 1216, 1992, but the author is solely responsible for the opinions expressed in it. t To whom requests for reprints should be addressed at 1739 Ivywood, Ann Arbor, MI 48103. My subject is billed as &dquo;Quality-Whos...