Palliative care aims to improve the quality of life of patients and their families facing problems associated with life-threatening illnesses. The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that each ...

Objective. To describe the background, history, and approach of the OECD Health Care Quality Indicators (HCQI) Project, an initiative to implement quality measures for international benchmarking of ...

The evolution of health care quality metrics over the preceding decades illustrates an enduring commitment toward enhancing patient outcomes, refining the structure of health care delivery, and ...

The study found no evidence that geographically limited disasters significantly reduced annual quality performance scores, highlighting the resilience of these programs. The main finding was that we ...

Federal definitions of nursing home falls and related injuries, and how they must be reported, are changing starting Wednesday. The changes threaten to compromise providers’ compliance and ...

Researchers from across the country, including Yale-New Haven (Conn.) Hospital and Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, have recommended eight quality indicators for performance ...

Esra Eren Bayindir, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany. Jonas Schreyögg ([email protected]), University of Hamburg. Hospital quality has been measured and made publicly available for decades in ...

New York, NY - The quality of care Medicare patients receive depends on where they live, particularly if they are being treated for heart failure, stroke, breast cancer, and other life-threatening ...

“Quality is Job 1.” That slogan, which Ford Motor Company used for decades, applies more than ever to healthcare. That’s nothing new, of course. The federal government has been championing quality ...

Different approaches to measure the hospital competition index might lead to inconsistent results of the effects of hospital competition on innovation adoption. The purpose of this study is to adopt a ...