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Original Source: Patient Feedback: A Quality Improvement Study in Outpatient Settings
The purpose of this study is to assess whether the use of a performance improvement intervention (Patient Feedback) increases clinician performance (as assessed by average clinician caseload rates of reduced drug and alcohol use and attendance) in community-based substance abuse treatment programs.
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Clinical trials are a set of procedures in medical research conducted to allow safety (or more specifically, information about adverse drug reactions and adverse effects of other treatments) and eff...
Clinical trials involving new drugs are commonly classified into four phases. Each phase of the drug approval process is treated as a separate clinical trial. The drug-development process will norma...
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Pushing the Outpatient Quality Envelope Pushing the Outpatient Quality Envelope
In its 2001 report Crossing the Quality Chasm, the Institute of Medicine outlined 6 domains of quality in medical care: safety, effectiveness, patient-centeredness, timeliness, efficiency, and equity....
NHSN Enrollment Deadline for Outpatient Dialysis Clinics Approaching
ATLANTA—The deadline for outpatient dialysis clinics is approaching. In order to receive the maximum 10 points for purposes of scoring under the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) en...
Nurses are the largest group of health care providers in the U.S., and health care leaders and experts agree that engaging registered nurses (RNs) in quality improvement (QI) efforts is essential to i...
Health care quality measurement for doctors' offices needs improvement
(Weill Cornell Medical College) In its 2001 report Crossing the Quality Chasm, the Institute of Medicine outlined six domains of quality in medical care: safety, effectiveness, patient-centeredness, t...
Significant Improvement In Performance On Metrics For Quality Oncology Care
Summary of a study published online in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, analyzing self-reported data from 156 outpatient oncology practices participating in the American Society of Clinical Oncology'...
Early-Career Nurses Not Involved in QI Activities but Strive to Engage in Hand Hygiene
Nurses are the largest group of healthcare providers in the U.S., and healthcare leaders agree that engaging registered nurses in quality improvement (QI) efforts is essential to improving patient car...
Medicare Reimbursement for Outpatient Therapy
Today I review Medicare’s approach for paying for outpatient therapy visits. The content draws largely from CMS and MedPAC sources. What is outpatient therapy Outpatient therapy includes physica...
Study shows people with SE-AN can be treated with outpatient treatment programme
Patients with the most severe and dangerous form of chronic anorexia are more likely to make a significant improvement towards recovery and stay in therapy if traditional psychological treatments are...
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Improving Quality of Care and Outcomes for Heart Failure.
Heart failure (HF) results in substantial morbidity, mortality, and costs, yet quality of care varies widely and is frequently inadequate. Performance improvement registries have been developed to imp...
Imaging quality of F-18-FDG PET/CT in the inpatient versus outpatient setting.
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study is to investigate potential differences in the image quality of inpatient versus outpatient F-18-FDG PET/CT to provide evidence for appropriate policies and proced...
Health information technology (health IT) has potential for facilitating quality improvement and reducing quality disparities found in underresourced settings (URSs). With this systematic literature r...
Cataract surgery is scheduled for a federal program for quality improvement across the different sectors of care (outpatient care and hospitals). In case of implementation not only ophthalmic surgeons...
BACKGROUND: The study was performed to reveal the effect of an individualized personal outpatient therapy program, based on a multidisciplinary assessment, on pain and health-related quality of life i...
