David O. Meltzer ( [email protected]) is an associate professor in the Department of General Internal Medicine, University of Chicago, in Illinois. Jeanette W. Chung is a research assistant professor ...

The benefits of pay-for-performance schemes in improving the quality of care remain uncertain. There is little information on the effect of removing incentives from existing pay-for-performance ...

Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) initiated a pathology reporting project aimed at improving the quality of cancer pathology by standardizing the content, format, and transmission of reports to a central ...

There is emerging concern that the methods used to measure the quality of care unfairly penalize providers caring for patients with multiple chronic conditions. We therefore sought to study the ...

Background: There is a wide practice gap between optimal and actual care for patients with acute myocardial infarction in hospitals around the world. We undertook this initiative to develop an updated ...

Phase I and Pharmacokinetic Study of Intravenous Irinotecan Plus Oral Ciclosporin in Patients With Fluorouracil-Refractory Metastatic Colon Cancer Purpose: To explore potential indicators of the ...

August 16, 2011 — Quality-of-care indicators may be useful to monitor and help improve quality of care for children with sickle cell disease (SCD), according to the results of a literature review and ...

BACKGROUND: The lack of validated quality indicators is a major barrier to improving end-of-life communication and decision-making. We sought to show the feasibility of and provide initial validation ...

Our indicators measure outcomes that reflect the quality of care or processes linked by evidence to improved outcomes. These outcomes are ideally, but not always, related to NICE quality standards.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Changes to ADR definition include lowering the age of patient inclusion to 45 years and raising the minimum ...