Asthma care quality improvement: a workbook for state action and its complementary resource guide were developed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) as learning tools for all state officials who want to improve the quality of health care. In conjunction with the resource guide, which uses state-level data on asthma care from the 2004 National Healthcare Quality Report, this workbook is designed to help states assess the quality of care in their states and fashion quality improvement strategies suited to state conditions.
Asthma Care Quality Improvement Guide
The EPCs systematically review the relevant scientific literature on topics assigned to them by AHRQ and conduct additional analyses when appropriate prior to developing their reports and assessments.
The objective of this systematic review was to evaluate the evidence that quality improvement (QI) strategies can improve the processes and outcomes of outpatient care for children and adults with asthma, and to identify the most effective ...
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Closing the Quality Gap: A Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement Strategies
Title page -- Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Information Infrastructure for Transferring Research -- Transferring Research Through High Performance Computing -- Retooling Practitioners in the Information Age -- Towards a ...
This book will be of particular interest to emergency health care providers, professional organizations, and policy makers looking to address the pediatric deficiencies within their emergency care systems.
Rather than concentrating on the specific clinical practices that appear to improve health outcomes, the focus of this review is on translating research into practice—identifying those activities that increase the rate at which practices ...
Both reports measure health care quality and track changes over time but with different orientations. The NHQR addresses the current state of health care quality and the opportunities for improvement for all Americans as a whole.