Quality management practice in Ethiopia

Quality Management of Distant Medical Practice

Advances in communications technology have facilitated the practice of medicine in an electronic environment. Collectively, the practice of medicine in such an environment may be considered as telemedicine, whether consultations use e-mail in one city, dedicated high speed communication lines transcontinentally, or satellite links internationally. When patient education and risk assessment are ...

Agricultural Knowledge Management Systems in Practice: The Ability to Support Wereda Knowledge Centers in Ethiopia

Agriculture is the dominant sector in the Ethiopian economy but it is characterized by low productivity. Ethiopia is interested in creating access to agricultural knowledge through an agricultural knowledge management system (AKMS). Such a system has been developed using a web-based portal named Ethiopian Agriculture Portal (EAP). It is facilitated through Woreda Knowledge Centers (WKCs) which ...

Quality assurance for interventional pain management procedures in private practice.

BACKGROUND A recent study has indicated that quality assurance for interventional pain management procedures (IPMPs) can be achieved in university pain clinics. However, the issue of quality assurance for IPMPs in private practice has not yet been addressed. OBJECTIVE This study was designed to monitor the quality of IPMPs in a private pain practice in north Florida. METHODS From November 2...

Quality ICU MANAGEMENT & PRACTICE Biomarkers in Heart Failure

Diabetes management quality improvement in a family practice residency program.

BACKGROUND Diabetes is a devastating chronic disease. Although optimal diabetes control reduces chronic complications, actual provision of diabetes care frequently falls short of accepted guidelines. We wanted to determine whether locally developed diabetes care initiatives can result in improvements in the provision of diabetes care. METHODS This study was a retrospective cohort analysis usi...