International Journal for Quality in Health Care

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• Prevalence and Patterns of Potentially Avoidable Hospitalizations in the US Long-term Care Setting
  What conditions are associated with avoidable hospitalizations in nursing home patients?

  April 18, 2016

• Reducing Excess Readmissions: Promising Effect of Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program in US Hospitals
  Does the Medicare Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program decrease readmissions for pneumonia, acute myocardial infarction, and heart failure?

  March 17, 2016

• Bradycardia As an Early Warning Sign for Cardiac Arrest During Routine Laparoscopic Surgery
  Cardiac arrest is a rare, but serious complication of laparoscopic surgery, even in healthy and fit patients. Might bradycardia be a potential red flag?

  January 29, 2016

• The Missing Evidence: A Systematic Review of Patients' Experiences of Adverse Events in Health Care
  This review summarizes current literature reporting patients' own perspective on adverse events, including their treatment, decision outcomes, and the processes and events that occurred.

  December 29, 2015

• Quality of Primary Care by Advanced Practice Nurses: A Systematic Review
  Do advanced practice nurses in primary care settings perform as well as physicians in terms of clinical outcomes and patient satisfaction?

  November 20, 2015

Table of Contents

2020 -

• 30-Day Readmission Rate Of Covid-19 Patients Discharged From A Tertiary Care University Hospital In Turkey; An Observational, Single-Center Study. 

  October 26, 2020

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• Innovating Health Care: Key Characteristics of Human-Centered Design. 

  October 17, 2020

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• Hospital medication errors: a cross sectional study. 

  October 16, 2020

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• Development and Psychometric Properties of the Caring Behaviors Assessment Tool Nursing Version-Short Form. 

  October 15, 2020

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• Trauma system accreditation and patient outcomes in British Columbia: An interrupted time series analysis. 

  October 15, 2020

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• Perspectives on implementing a quality improvement collaborative to improve person-centered care for maternal and reproductive health in Kenya. 

  October 15, 2020

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• The effect of electronic audits and feedback in primary care and factors that contribute to their effectiveness: a systematic review. 

  October 15, 2020

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• EVALUATION OF CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINE QUALITY: COMPARISON OF TWO APPRAISAL TOOLS. 

  October 15, 2020

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• Changes in compensation claim contents following reorganization of emergency hospital care. 

  October 08, 2020

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• human factors: the pharmaceutical supply chain as a complex sociotechnical system. 

  September 30, 2020

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• The 40 health systems, COVID-19 (40HS, C-19) study. 

  September 30, 2020

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• Dealing with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on a Rapid Response Team operation in Brazil: Quality in practice. 

  September 30, 2020

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• "Heroes in Healthcare; what's wrong with that?" 

  September 30, 2020

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• Human factors engineering for medical devices: European regulation and current issues. 

  September 30, 2020

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• Erratum to: How health care systems let our patients down: a systematic review into suicide deaths. 

  September 27, 2020

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• Deciding Without Data: Clinical Decision Making in Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery. 

  September 27, 2020

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• Effect of referral systems on costs and outcomes after hip fracture surgery in Taiwan. 

  September 18, 2020

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• Correlation between compensated patient claims and 30-day mortality. 

  September 10, 2020

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• Oral Health Promotion Apps: an assessment of message and behaviour change potential. 

  September 10, 2020

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• Factors influencing family member perspectives on safety in the intensive care unit: a systematic review. 

  September 09, 2020

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• Frontiers in Human Factors: Embedding Specialists in Multi-disciplinary efforts to Improve Healthcare. 

  September 09, 2020

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• Risk-adjustment models for clean and colorectal surgery surgical site infection for the Spanish health system. 

  September 09, 2020

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• The Effects of Acupressure on Post-Cesarean Pain and Analgesic Consumption: A Randomized Single-Blinded Placebo-Controlled Study. 

  September 02, 2020

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• Case study: International Healthcare Service Quality - Building a Model for Cultivating Cultural Sensitivity. 

  August 29, 2020

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• mHealth-based person-centredness: a key tool for the development of participatory health. 

  August 26, 2020

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• Association of continuity of care with readmission, mortality, and suicide after hospital discharge among psychiatric patients. 

  August 14, 2020

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• The applicability of COBIT processes representation structure for quality improvement in healthcare: a Delphi study. 

  August 14, 2020

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• From Hospital to Post-Acute Care Organisations: The Relationship Between Patient Experience and Health Recovery. 

  August 14, 2020

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• Ethical Frameworks for Quality Improvement Activities: An Analysis of International Practice. 

  August 14, 2020

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• Hospital Accreditation Impact on Healthcare Quality Dimensions: A Systematic Review. 

  August 11, 2020

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• Human Factors/Ergonomics support for the design and testing of Rapidly Manufactured Ventilators in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

  August 11, 2020

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• Reengineer Health Care: A Human Factors and Ergonomics Framework to Improve the Socio-Technical System. 

  August 11, 2020

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• The efficiency-thoroughness trade-off after implementation of electronic medication management: a qualitative study in pediatric oncology. 

  August 06, 2020

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• Expanding frontiers of risk management: care safety in nursing home during COVID-19 pandemic. 

  July 27, 2020

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• Improving the quality of mortality review equity reporting: Development of an Indigenous Māori responsiveness rubric. 

  July 27, 2020

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• Variation between hospitals and reviewers in detection of adverse events identified through medical record review in Korea. 

  July 21, 2020

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• The Registry of Senior Australians (ROSA) Outcome Monitoring System: Quality and Safety Indicators for Residential Aged Care. 

  July 21, 2020

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• Improving knowledge and confidence in foundation doctors during specialty changeover. 

  July 16, 2020

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• Psychometric evaluation of instruments measuring the work environment of healthcare professionals in hospitals: a systematic literature review. 

  July 10, 2020

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• Bundle interventions including nontechnical skills for surgeons can reduce operative time and improve patient safety. 

  July 10, 2020

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• Methods of patient-reported measures administration and their impact. 

  June 30, 2020

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• COVID-19 Pandemic: A Time for Collaboration and A Unified Global Health Front. 

  June 27, 2020

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• Understanding variation in covid-19 reported deaths with a novel Shewhart chart application. 

  June 26, 2020

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• The global challenges for quality improvement and patient safety. 

  June 02, 2020

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• The COVID-19 Pandemic: A Call to Action for Health Systems in Latin America to Strengthen Quality of Care. 

  May 30, 2020

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• Human factors and ergonomics at time of crises: the Italian experience coping with COVID19. 

  May 13, 2020

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• COVID-19: Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Skills to Deploy during the Surge. 

  May 13, 2020

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• Act now! Covid-19 pandemic: the coordinated support of the international community to low- and middle-income countries is needed immediately. 

  May 13, 2020

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• Quality & Safety in the time of Coronavirus-Design Better, Learn Faster. 

  May 13, 2020

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• Advancing quality in the 2020s: systematically and interdisciplinarily. 

  May 07, 2020

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• Prospectively identifying adults with serious mental illness at risk for poor physical health: The role of person reported outcomes. 

  April 15, 2020

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• Comparing outcome measures of persons with severe mental illness in vocational rehabilitation programs: a dual perspective of consumers and providers. 

  March 31, 2020

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• A systematic review of patient-reported outcome measurement (PROM) and provider assessment in mental health: goals, implementation, setting, measurement characteristics and barriers. 

  March 11, 2020

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• Corrigendum to: Enhancing efficiency in a cardiac investigations department by increasing remote patient monitoring. 

  March 09, 2020

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• Corrigendum to: Using Lean Six Sigma to improve rates of day of surgery admission in a national thoracic surgery department. 

  March 09, 2020

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• A Novel Method of Assessing Clinical Preparedness for COVID-19 and Other Disasters. 

  January 30, 2020

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• Responding to COVID-19: the experience from Italy and recommendations for management and prevention 

  January 19, 2020

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• From Intensive Care to Step-Down Units: Managing Patients Throughput in Response to COVID-19. 

  January 11, 2020

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