Closing the Quality Gap: A Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement Strategies, Volume 7--Care Coordination

Closing the Quality Gap: A Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement Strategies, Technical Review, No. 9: Vol. II: Diabetes Mellitus Care

Closing the Quality Gap: A Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement Strategies Volume 1—Series Overview and Methodology

This document is in the public domain and may be used and reprinted without permission except those copyrighted materials noted, for which further reproduction is prohibited without the specific permission of copyright holders. Preface The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), through its Evidence-based Practice Centers (EPCs), sponsors the development of evidence reports and techn...

Evaluating the state of quality-improvement science through evidence synthesis: insights from the closing the quality gap series.

CONTEXT The Closing the Quality Gap series from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality summarizes evidence for eight high-priority health care topics: outcomes used in disability research, bundled payment programs, public reporting initiatives, health care disparities, palliative care, the patient-centered medical home, prevention of health care-associated infections, and medication adh...

Closing the quality gap: revisiting the state of the science (vol. 7: quality improvement measurement of outcomes for people with disabilities).

OBJECTIVE To examine how health care outcomes for general medical care have been assessed for people with disabilities within the rubrics of care coordination and quality improvement. DATA SOURCES MEDLINE®, PsychINFO, ERIC, and CIRRIE through March 27, 2012; hand searches of references from relevant literature and journals. A search of high-quality gray literature sources was also conducted. ...

Closing the Quality Gap: A Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement Strategies Volume 6—Prevention of Healthcare-Associated Infections

ed separately. Thus, if an article reported a three arm trial, in which distinct interventions were delivered to participants in two of the arms and the third arm constituted a control group, then we considered such a study to contain two trials (the separate comparisons of the two intervention arms against the control group). Targeted Preventive Interventions We defined a “preventive intervent...