Incorporating quality improvement and measurement in the strategic plan for health information technology required by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111 5).
They have initiated the National College Health Improvement Project, whose team works with improvement and measurement experts from The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice to bring health solutions and quality improvement methods to address the problem of high-risk drinking.
9 Note that I am suggesting a blend of two of Solberg's 'Three Faces of Performance Measurement' 10 measurement for improvement and measurement for research in which it is important not to slow down work by obsessing about fastidious measurement while still measuring precisely enough for the results to be credible.
Because approximately 75% of primary care is provided in practices consisting of 10 or fewer physicians, optimizing the adoption of quality improvement and measurement approaches in these practices is critical to initiatives to enhance the quality of care in the U.S.[ 25].
End points were subjective opinion of improvement and collagenometry measurements performed with the high-resolution ultrasound system, Collagenoson® (Minhorst, Meudt, Germany).
Numerous studies on research and development, material application, production process improvements, and human physiological measurements for the sport shoe market exist.
It is likely that new contrast agents and improvements in measurement and analytic methods will further extend the utility of MRI in investigating the vascular dependence of tumour growth and the activity of vascular-directed therapies.
The time span between the quality improvements and the second measurement could also be questioned, since changes take time.
If anything, the new strategies may complicate our approaches to quality improvement and performance measurement.
Further research on patient safety should evaluate whether quality improvement and performance measurement initiatives prioritising waiting times in emergency departments result in reductions of adverse events.
They have been developed and evaluated with input from clinician panels, expert coders, empirical analysis, and feedback from users. 10 The indicators have been used extensively in the US for national and local quality improvement and safety measurement initiatives.
