We conducted a quality improvement project to explore the hypothesis that prescribed and delivered dialysate sodium concentrations may differ significantly.
This is a before and after study of audit-based education (ABE), a non-judgemental quality improvement intervention to explore concordance with guidance in the management of people with a family history of breast cancer in primary care.
Additionally, an envelope of possible improvements was presented to explore the potential of the approach on all ends.
3 5 For several years preceding the Colloquium, colleagues met at the International Forums on Quality Improvement in Health Care to explore the diverse knowledge systems and controversies that underpin system-level, data-driven improvement research and practice.
The purpose of this LCA project was to incorporate life cycle thinking into the engineering design process, to apply the four main steps of LCA (definition and scope, inventory analysis, impact assessment and improvement assessment), and to explore some of the challenges associated with each step.
Using an example from neonatal intensive care, this paper adapts Plato's definition of the concept 'knowledge' and applies it to the field of quality improvement in order to explore and understand where current tensions may lie for both practitioners and decision makers.
The commission wants universities to help trace graduates who fail to repay, including those overseas, and it wants pilot schemes to explore improvements in debt collection by 2016.
The researchers at the forefront of the work are astrobiologists, working in an area that has steadily marched in from the fringes of science thanks to the improvements in technology available to explore space.
The objective of this study was to explore improvements in quality of life and the cost-utility of bilateral cochlear implantation.
When integrating improvements, players are encouraged to explore self-invented ideas.
This meeting also served to explore improvements in the study design, such as the possibility of interviewing women who were users of the health services.
