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    Healthcare Quality Improvement and ‘work engagement’; concluding results from...

    Background Concerns about patient safety and reducing harm have led to a particular focus on initiatives that improve healthcare quality. However Quality Improvement (QI)...
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    Quality of social and emotional wellbeing services for families of young Indi...

    Background The quality of social and emotional wellbeing services for Indigenous families of young children is not known, in many settings especially services provided by...
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    Development of a benchmark tool for cancer centers; Results from a pilot exer...

    Background Differences in cancer survival exist between countries in Europe. Benchmarking of good practices can assist cancer centers to improve their services aiming for...
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    Enhancing system-wide implementation of opioid prescribing guidelines in prim...

    Abstract Background Systematic implementation of guidelines for opioid therapy management in chronic non-cancer pain can reduce opioid-related harms. However, implementation of...
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    Data-driven quality improvement in low-and middle-income country health syste...

    Background Well-functioning health systems need to utilize data at all levels, from the provider, to local and national-level decision makers, in order to make evidence-based...
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    Implementation and adoption of advanced care planning in the elderly trauma p...

    Background Geriatric trauma has high morbidity and mortality, often requiring extensive hospital stays and interventions. The number of geriatric trauma patients is also...
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    a journey towards novel and more effective anti-cancer therapies

    Comprehensive Cancer Centres (CCCs) serve as critical drivers for improving cancer survival. In Europe, we have developed an Excellence Designation System (EDS) consisting of...
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    The sustainability of Lean in pediatric healthcare: a realist review

    Background Lean is a quality improvement management system from the Toyota manufacturing industry. Since the early 2000’s, Lean has been used as an intervention for healthcare...
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    Data for Improvement and Clinical Excellence: a report of an interrupted time...

    Background There is substantial evidence about the effectiveness of audit with feedback, but none that we know have been conducted in home care settings. The primary purpose of...
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    Mapping standard ophthalmic outcome sets to metrics currently reported in eig...

    Background To determine alignment of proposed international standard outcomes sets for ophthalmic conditions to metrics currently reported by eye hospitals. Methods Mixed...
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    Oral/dental items in the resident assessment instrument – minimum Data Set 2....

    Background Oral health in nursing home residents is poor. Robust, mandated assessment tools such as the Resident Assessment Instrument – Minimum Data Set (RAI-MDS) 2.0 are key...
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    Sustainability of knowledge translation interventions in healthcare decision-...

    Background Knowledge translation (KT, also known as research utilization, and sometimes referring to implementation science) is a dynamic and iterative process that includes the...
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    Transferring skills in quality collaboratives focused on improving patient lo...

    Background A quality improvement collaborative, often used by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, is used to educate healthcare professionals and improve healthcare at the...
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    Hospital quality reporting and improvement in quality of care for patients wi...

    Background Although public reporting of hospital performance is becoming common, it remains uncertain whether public reporting leads to improvement in clinical outcomes. This...
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    Key stakeholders’ views on the quality of care and services available to frai...

    Background: Frail seniors often receive ineffective care, which does not meet their needs. It is still unclear how healthcare systems should be redesigned to be...
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    Assessing citation networks for dissemination and implementation research fra...

    Background A recent review of frameworks used in dissemination and implementation (D&I) science described 61 judged to be related either to dissemination, implementation, or...
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    Leveraging quality improvement through use of the Systems Assessment Tool in ...

    Background Assessment of the quality of primary health care health delivery systems is a vital part of continuous quality improvement (CQI) processes. The Systems Assessment...
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    A complex intervention to improve implementation of World Health Organization...

    Background To improve management of severely ill hospitalized patients in low-income settings, the World Health Organization (WHO) established a triage tool called “Quick Check”...
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    Experience Feedback Committee: a management tool to improve patient safety in...

    Background A management tool, called the Experience Feedback Committee, has been applied for patient safety and successfully used in medical departments. The purpose of this...