Background Transparency in quality of care is an increasingly important issue in healthcare. In many international healthcare systems, transparency in quality is crucial for health insurers when purchasing care on behalf of their consumers, for providers to improve the quality of care (if necessary), and for consumers to choose their provider in case treatment is needed. Conscious consume...

INTRODUCTION Healthcare is not immune to the deeply rooted inequalities in American society. To this day, racial and ethnic differences exist in the quality and outcomes of healthcare that cannot be attributed to socioeconomic or other healthcare access factors. Lawyers committed to social justice have long dedicated energy and attention to these continued disparities. As a lawyer litigating ag...

PURPOSE To advance the quality of mental healthcare in Europe by developing guidance on implementing quality assurance. METHODS We performed a systematic literature search on quality assurance in mental healthcare and the 522 retrieved documents were evaluated by two independent reviewers (B.J. and J.Z.). Based on these evaluations, evidence tables were generated. As it was found that these d...

Background: Measuring healthcare quality and improving patient satisfaction have become increasingly prevalent, especially among healthcare providers and purchasers of healthcare. The aim of this study was; to evaluate the various aspects of quality assurance in Emergency Department, to evaluate patient satisfaction with emergency care, and to determine associated factors with patient satisfact...

This is a short commentary to the editorial issued by Marianna Fotaki, entitled: “Why and how is compassion necessary to provide good quality healthcare.” It introduces the necessity of a more cognitive approach to explore further the determinants of behavior towards compassionate care. It raises questions about the importance of training towards a more patient-care and values driven healthcare...

Within healthcare institutions, leadership is an essential driver of expectations, performance, and culture. Yet boards of directors traditionally played a limited role in overseeing healthcare quality, providing final approval of credentialing decisions but deferring to the medical staff to set standards for the institution. Case law and standards provide little guidance for board performance ...

Hospital provide a number of health services and proper health facilities for society, one of the healthcare is inpatient. Because of the daily high demand of inpatients healthcare in a day, some hospitals seems too overwhelmed to control the information flow. Mainly, hospital already used Hospital Information System (HIS) for helping managing information flow. But some of it does not really ca...

148. Antimicrobial Stewardship Practices Reported by California Hospitals —Annual Hospital Survey Data Submitted via the National Healthcare Safety Network, 2014 Erin Epson, MD; Kyle Rizzo, MPH; Sam Horwich-Scholefield, MPH; Lynn Janssen, MS, CIC, CPHQ; Healthcare-Associated Infections Program, California Department of Public Health, Richmond, California; California Epidemiologic Investigation ...

Presently, there is a growing demand from the healthcare community to leverage upon and transform the vast quantities of healthcare data into value-added, 'decision-quality' knowledge, vis-à-vis, strategic knowledge services oriented towards healthcare management and planning. To meet this end, we present a Strategic Knowledge Services Info-structure that leverages on existing healthcare knowle...