Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR
Sep 1, 2019
Recent advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence offer promising applications to radiology quality improvement initiatives as they relate to the radiology value network. Coordination within the interlocking web of systems, events, and ...
International journal for quality in health care : journal of the International Society for Quality in Health Care
Apr 1, 2019
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the return on investment (ROI) and quality improvement after implementation of a centralized automated-dispensing system after 8 years of use.
New technologies offer innovations to improve the care of the elderly with Alzheimer's or and other forms of dementia. Robots, endowed with features such as monitoring of physiological parameters, cognitive training or occupational therapy, have appe...
Journal for healthcare quality : official publication of the National Association for Healthcare Quality
Jan 1, 2016
Recommendations for the evaluation of quality improvement interventions have been made in order to improve the evidence base of whether, to what extent, and why quality improvement interventions affect chosen outcomes. The purpose of this article is ...
BACKGROUND: Quality improvement efforts are frequently tied to patients achieving ≥80% medication adherence. However, there is little empirical evidence that this threshold optimally predicts important health outcomes.
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
Data quality was placed as a major reason for the low utility of patient safety event reporting systems. A pressing need in improving data quality has advanced recent research focus in data entry associated with human factors. The debate on structure...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
The objective of this paper is to evaluate the extent to which early determination of diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) can be used for better allocation of scarce hospital resources. When elective patients seek admission, the true DRG, currently deter...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
Significant efforts have been undertaken for providing the Gene Ontology (GO) in a computable format as well as for enriching it with logical definitions. Automated approaches can thus be applied to GO for assisting its maintenance and for checking i...