J Lynn, MA Baily, M Bottrell, B Jennings, RJ … - Annals of Internal Medicine, 2007 - Am Coll Physicians Quality improvement (QI) activities can improve health care but must be
conducted ethically. The Hastings Center convened leaders and scholars to
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JA Welker, M Huston, JD McCue - Archives of Internal Medicine, 2008 - archinte.highwire.org Background The percentage of patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP)
whose time to first antibiotic dose (TFAD) is less than 4 hours of presentation
to the emergency department (ED) has been made a core quality measure, and ... Cited by 34 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
- ►fha.org [PDF] SF Jencks, MV Williams, EA Coleman - The New England journal of medicine, 2009 - nejm.highwire.org From an independent consulting prac- tice, Baltimore (SFJ); the Division of
Hospital Medicine, Northwestern Uni- versity Feinberg School of Medicine, Chi-
cago (MVW); and the Care Transitions Program, Division of Health Care ... Cited by 36 - Related articles - All 24 versions
NM Albert, GC Fonarow, WT Abraham, K … - Journal of cardiac failure, 2007 - Elsevier Although recent heart failure (HF) management guidelines recommend delivery of
patient education and discharge instructions, little is known about predictors
of delivery of these materials or how such materials relate to outpatient ... Cited by 12 - Related articles - All 4 versions
DB Mukamel, DL Weimer, WD Spector, H Ladd … - Health services research, 2008 - pubmedcentral.nih.gov Dana B. Mukamel, Ph.D., David L. Weimer, Ph.D., William D. Spector, Ph.D.,
Heather Ladd, MS, and Jacqueline S. Zinn, Ph.D. ... The publisher's final
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SM Shortell, WA Peck - Annals of Internal Medicine, 2006 - Am Coll Physicians Many agree that the quality of health care in the United States has improved in
the past decade (1). Progress, however, has been slow, incremental, uneven, and
far from what could have been realized with a more concerted effort, ... Cited by 5 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
- ►cornell.edu [PDF] ML Pearson, VV Upenieks, T Yee, J … - Journal of Nursing Administration, 2008 - journals.lww.com Healthcare administrators increasingly face the challenge of how to spread
innovation throughout their organizations. The authors present the results of an
evaluation of the efforts of 3 major hospital systems to internally ... Cited by 3 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
JS Zinn, WD Spector, DL Weimer, DB … - HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH-CHICAGO-, 2008 - interscience.wiley.com Address correspondence to Jacqueline S. Zinn, Ph.D., Professor, Department of
Risk, Insurance and Healthcare Management, Temple University, 413 Ritter Annex,
Philadelphia, PA 19122. William D. Spector, Ph.D., Senior Social Scientist, ... Cited by 3 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
- ►seniorfriendlyhospitals.ca [PDF] DR Berlowitz, RA Frantz - Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 2007 - Elsevier Industrial models of quality improvement, known as continuous quality
improvement (CQI) or total quality management, are being advocated as an
important mechanism for promoting the implementation of best practices in ... Cited by 3 - Related articles - All 10 versions
JG Ouslander, G Patry, RW Besdine - Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 2007 - Elsevier A supplement to this issue of the Journal of the American Medical Directors
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