Quality Assurance in Ambulatory Care

Quality Assurance and Benchmarking in Ambulatory Surgery

Aim: To find clinical indicators for benchmarking out of a nationwide quality assurance programme Methods: Data from 153 000 cases of the quality assurance programme AQS1 were electronically analysed for the most frequent procedures in 10 medical specialties. Results: Hospitalisation rate for the most frequent procedures was below 0.6%. The search gave data for the time of inability to work and...

Quality Assurance in Critical Care

Quality assurance in our health care system.

Quality assurance in long term care.

apies, and death and dying. The book concludes with a discussion of future practice directions, which are concep tualized in terms of a system of com· munity-hased care. Occupational therapists will find this book useful as a basic resource on common psychological/psychiatric disorders of the elderly. The underlying philosophy supponing self-sufficiency is compatible with occupational therapy. ...

Patient Safety and Quality in Ambulatory Care

The majority of patient safety and quality research has focused on the inpatient setting, leaving a lack of intervention-based research in patient safety and quality for the ambulatory setting. There were an estimated 1.1 billion ambulatory visits in the US in 2010 with this number expecting to rise due to the shift from inpatient to outpatient care and the aging population. Given these numbers...