When is a health-care quality indicator ready to use?

[Use of the family health record as a quality-of-care indicator in primary health care units].

Expansion of the Family Health Program in Brazil requires indicators to evaluate the consistency of the approach actually adopted and the program's underlying principles. Together with the family health chart, the family health history (medical genealogy) allows improved follow-up of the clientele's health and the quality of care provided. This study used the family health chart based on extern...

Is health care ready for a full menu of prices?

Examine the emerging trend of price transparency in health care and learn what some states are doing to make prices widely available on the Web.

How to Use MRP in Continuous Production Industries When Order Type is Lot for Lot

The Materials Requirements Planning (MRP) method that is applied in production planning and management has some weaknesses. One of its weaknesses is that the time in MRP method is discrete, and is considered as time period. Hence we are not able to order our requirements at irregular time moments or periods. In this paper, a new form of MRP is introduced that is named Continuous Materials Requi...

What happens to health care quality when the patient pays?

A t a Convention of the Medical Committee for Human Rights held in Chicago in March 1966, Martin Luther King Jr declared: ‘‘Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane’’, and in the Institute of Medicine report ‘‘Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century’’ published in 2001 it is stated that a healthcare system should pro...

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