Quality management in Malaysian public health care by Abd. Manaf, Noor Hazilah

“…Originality/value – The article fills a lacuna in the health care quality management empirical research literature. …”
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Quality Indicators for Chronic Diseases in Primary Care by Ayse Caylan, Busra Paspal, Hamdi Nezih Dagdeviren

“…Quality indicators is defined as nominal, ordinal or quantitative measures of health care quality in order to provide effective, safe and human-centered health care. …”
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Improving quality in outpatient services / by Guinane, Carole S., Davis, Noreen

Adaptation and implementation of local maternity dashboards in a Zimbabwean hospital to drive clinical improvement by J Crofts, J Moyo, W Ndebele, S Mhlanga, T Draycott, T Sibanda

“…Presentation of these data to staff led to the rapid identification of adverse trends in outcomes and to suggestions for actions to improve health-care quality. Lessons learnt Implementation of maternity dashboards was feasible in a low-resource setting and resulted in actions that improved health-care quality locally. …”
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Biomedical and Health Informatics / by Ferrari, Erica, author 648245, Spicer, Isaias, author 648246

“…Broad and consistent utilization of HIT will: Improve health care quality; Prevent medical errors; Reduce health care costs; Increase administrative efficiencies; Decrease paperwork; and Expand access to affordable care. …”
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Understanding the Context for Incorporating Equity into Quality Improvement Throughout a National Health Care System by Collaboration group

“…Interviews covered existing practices for monitoring health care quality (i.e., priorities, tasks, workflow, and resources) and explored how equity data might fit into current processes. …”
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Diminishing returns, increasing risks: Impact of antibiotic duration of therapy on respiratory bacterial isolates in hospitalized patients during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVI... by Catherine Li, Ryan W. Chapin, Nicholas J. Mercuro, Christina F. Yen, Howard S. Gold, Matthew S. L. Lee, Christopher McCoy

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Understanding spatial variation in the utilization of health services: does quality matter? by Lindelow, M

“…The findings show that health care quality is a significant and important factor in women's choice of delivery location. …”

Psychiatry services and moral distress by Mustafa Sabri Kovanci, Azize Atli Ozbas

“…Furthermore, moral distress negatively affects the health, care quality of the healthcare personnel and patient safety. …”
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Quality of care for under-fives in first-level health facilities in one district of Bangladesh by Arifeen S.E., Bryce J., Gouws E., Baqui A.H., Black R.E., Hoque D.M.E., Chowdhury E.K., Yunus M., Begum N., Akter T., Siddique A.

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A network perspective on patient experiences and health status: the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey 2004 to 2011 by Chao, Y, Wu, H, Scutari, M, Chen, T, Wu, C, Durand, M, Boivin, A

“…Network models help to identify significant predictors of health care quality ratings. With temporal relationships established, the structure of the variables can be meaningful for health policy researchers, who search for one or a few key priorities to initiate interventions or health care quality improvement programs. …”

Current and future developments in managed care in the United States and implications for Europe by Aspling Deborah L, Lagoe Ronald, Westert Gert P

“…Managed care was once seen as an effective approach to supporting health care quality while containing costs in the USA. In recent years payors started to look in other directions, since prospects for limiting expenses faded. …”
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How COVID has Illuminated the Pitfalls of a Single-Payer System in the US by Tamela J. White, Nicholas Wright

“…Health care quality measures are impacted by resources invested into outcomes. …”
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Permanent assessment of the methodological quality of clinical practice guidelines as an urgent need by Gustavo Adolfo Ángel-Ángel

“… Dear Editor: Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) are documents that, based on systematic literatura reviews and in order to provide tools to improve health care standards, synthesize the best available evidence and develop treatment recommendations for different conditions in specific scenarios.1 Therefore, and because of the usefulness of CPGs in improving health care quality standards, many government agencies hire thematic and methodological expert groups to produce them. …”
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Future developments in health care performance management by Crema M, Verbano C

“…The literature suggests starting with quality performance, following the sand cone theory, but considering a multidimensional concept of health care quality. Moreover, new managerial approaches coming from an industrial context and adapted to health care, such as lean management and risk management, can contribute to improving quality performance. …”
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Our health, our research. Identifying public health research priorities among children and youth in a multiethnic population: protocol for a community-based participatory health re... by Kristin Liabo, Eirik Lind Irgens, Gunnhild Berglen, Tore Christoffersen, Anita Pettersen Henninen, Rune Hermansen, Maret Risten Eira Karlsen, Ane Sofie Kokkvoll, Snefrid Møllersen, Grete Rugland, Magnhild Helen Stock, Tonje Olsen Zachariassen, Mette Kjaer

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Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Education in Otolaryngology Residency by Nausheen Jamal MD

“…Since publication of the Institute of Medicine’s report To Err Is Human in 1999, patient safety and health care quality have become hot topics in the parlance of modern medical care. …”
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OUTCOMES OF 22–27 WEEKS OF PREGNANCY IN HEALTH CARE INSTITUTIONS OF RUSSIAN FEDERATION by Ye. N. Baybarina, Z. Kh. Sorokina

“…Dynamics of results showed the necessity of development and delivery to health care institutions of Russian Federation the new forms of statistic reports for monitoring, analysis and improvement of health care quality in delivery and management of extremely premature infants.…”
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An Analysis of the State Policy in the Sphere of Medical Activity Quality and Safety by Aleksandr Pavlovich Shcherbo, Violetta Vyacheslavovna Averyanova

“…The authors stated that currently in Russia is not developed a unified methodology of health care quality management, which would fully cover all of its aspects and would be applicable at all levels of care. …”
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Defining the Dimensions of Diversity to Promote Inclusion in the Digital Era of Health Care: A Lexicon by Yashoda Sharma, Anindita Saha, Jennifer C Goldsack

“…We propose a lexicon that encompasses elements critical for implementing an inclusive approach to advancing health care quality and health services research in the digital era.…”
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