Specifically, we selected quality improvement interventions targeting patients, the health care system, or both.
They will be encouraged to select improvements such as clubhouse roofs, prefabricated changing rooms and drainage systems from a central catalogue, in order to benefit from economies of scale.
An analysis of elements within the aforementioned categories indicated select improvements (Table 3).
The study is an example of a procedure for the first two steps in quality improvement: select the target area and define recommended practice (see Table 1 "The first two steps in quality improvement").
For the first time in Germany we wanted to representatively evaluate the views of a wide range of different stakeholders, acting at the meso and macro level of the health system, concerning selected improvement measures for palliative care.
In the final round the quality improvement teams selected the following areas of care to focus on improving: four teams selected pain management, four teams selected behaviour management, and two teams chose skin care.
This approach to selecting areas for quality improvement was efficient and useful.
We performed a retrospective case-control analysis of patients selected from a quality improvement database of 1,717 patients hospitalized with sepsis between 1 January 2005 and 30 June 2010.
In addition, selected improvements were made for individual questionnaire items and recommendations in the feed-back statements.
The aim of public reporting is to improve healthcare quality by both stimulating quality improvement on the provider level ("Improvement Through Changes in Care") and also by helping patients and other consumers select the "right" provider ("Improvement Through Selection") [1].
