Except for structural communication for radiologists, these can be considered tasks that are not the core business of medical specialists, but do have potential effects on quality of care.
This study investigated long-term (two-year changes) effects of quality of care on productive interactions between patients and (teams of) healthcare professionals.
Future research should be conducted with multi-method designs that permit measuring and separating out these kinds of differential effects on quality of care indices.
Secondary outcomes include effects on quality of care, disease-specific and generic health-related quality of life, COPD exacerbations, dyspnea, costs of healthcare utilization, and productivity loss.
The effects on quality of care of this innovation were studied in a Randomised Controlled Clinical Trial in ten residential care homes in the Netherlands.
Factors more directly within program managers' control, such as frequency of supervisory visits or in-service training, were found to have lesser effects on quality of care.
Its aim is to investigate the effects on quality of care and the economic consequences of a hospital-based general practice with one access point for patients.
Health outcomes for elderly people and their caregivers, as well as effects on quality of care, service use, and costs will be examined.
We summarize our hypotheses in terms of the expected signs of the effects on quality of care in Table 1.> Several existing studies have examined how hospital financial pressures have affected the quality of care.
The results for the effects on quality of care were generally not statistically significant and may be taken as evidence that payment by results did not have an adverse impact on the quality of care.
Barriers to communication have been shown to lead to adverse effects on: quality of care, user satisfaction, health outcomes, resource utilization for diagnostic testing, unnecessary invasive procedures, barriers to continuity of care, use of preventive services, and mortality [ 20, 21].
