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Improving comfort and communication in the ICU: a practical new tool for palliative care performance measurement and feedback
1 Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, and Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute, Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development, Mount Sinai School of ...
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A framework for measuring quality and promoting accountability across silos: the case of mental disorders and co-occurring conditions
1 VA Ann Arbor National Serious Mental Illness Treatment Research and Evaluation Center, VA Ann Arbor HSR&D Center of Excellence, and Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan School of ...
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Is patient-centredness in European hospitals related to existing quality improvement strategies? Analysis of a cross-sectional survey (MARQuIS study)
Avedis Donabedian Institute, Autonomous University of Barcelona, and CIBER Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain Background: There is growing recognition of patients’ ...
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Medication reconciliation in the emergency department: opportunities for workflow redesign
Aim To examine the role of workflow redesign to improve medication reconciliation at four Washington State community hospital emergency departments. Method Lean redesign methodology was used for ...
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Providing feedback following Leadership WalkRounds is associated with better patient safety culture, higher employee engagement and lower burnout
Background There is a poorly understood relationship between Leadership WalkRounds (WR) and domains such as safety culture, employee engagement, burnout and work-life balance. Methods This ...