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Challenges in Systematic Reviews: Synthesis of Topics Related to the Delivery, Organization, and Financing of Health Care
, 2005
"... Some important health policy topics, such as those related to the delivery, organization, and financing of health care, present substantial challenges to established methods for evidence synthesis. For example, such reviews may ask: What is the effect of forprofit versus not-for-profit delivery of ..."
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of health care. We reviewed 94 Evidence-based Practice Center reviews and other published systematic reviews to identify reviews that specified their method for problem formulation, discussed the challenges of using nontraditional or medical literatures, and synthesized broad-based literature relevant
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"... Abstract In a recent study published in the Bulletin of the World Health organization, mathers et al. (2005) discussed the current status of global reporting of mortality data, and several indicators of quality and completeness of coded data were examined. Unfortunately, no recognition was attrib ..."
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and the proportion of women having trained assistance at delivery (World Health Organization Regional Office for South East Asia n.d.). However, even in countries with advanced health information systems, the quality of data recorded at facility level and received at central government offices is often poor
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, 2006
"... ii iii CHRISTOPHER CHARLES WEIGLE: Displays for Exploration and Comparison of Nested ..."
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ii iii CHRISTOPHER CHARLES WEIGLE: Displays for Exploration and Comparison of Nested
Measurement issues related to studies of childhood obesity: assessment of body composition, body fat distribution, physical activity, and food intake
- Pediatrics, 101(3 Pt
, 1998
"... ABSTRACT. This article reviews the current status of various methodologies used in obesity and nutrition research in children, with particular emphasis on identifying priorities for research needs. The focus of the article is 1) to review methodologic aspects involved with measurement of body compo ..."
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, several physical activity and behavior questionnaires have been designed specifically for children. The Netherlands Health Education Questionnaire 70 rates the response to eight questions relating to physical activity behavior on a 510 SUPPLEMENT at USC Norris Medical Library on July 15, 2008 www
Reducing Costs Through the Appropriate Use of Specialty Services Authors: Baker Consulting
, 2010
"... , or visit our website at www.IHI.org. The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) is a not-for-profit organization leading the improvement of health care throughout the world. IHI helps accelerate change by cultivating promising concepts for improving patient care and turning those ideas into a ..."
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for potential areas of clinical "mismatch" of services, or "overuse." 3 Eliminating this overuse offers a huge potential opportunity to help in the pursuit of universal coverage without rationing health care. 4 Methods for such reductions already exist in the US health care system, since
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, 2015
"... ABSTRACT Background: Periodic assessment of performance by anesthesiologists is required by The Joint Commission Ongoing Professional Performance Evaluation program. Methods: The metrics used in this study were the (1) measurement of blood pressure and (2) oxygen saturation (SpO 2 ) either before o ..."
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of anesthesiologists. For example, an anesthesiologist may check blood pressure from a transport monitor without reporting it in the electronic medical records within 5 min after induction. This is a systemsbased problem. Although charting is part of medical care, it is not that the blood pressure was not being
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"... tients cannot afford this expense. Furthermore, Medicaid payments in many states have been curtailed, which has similarly forced patients into hospital outpatient infusion centers. Therefore, the trajectory of total drug spending for oncology care is predictably higher than the National Oncology Pr ..."
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physician. Those practices not participating in eRx or PQRI cite as reasons a lack of information, confusion, physicians not wanting to implement eRx, or electronic health records that do not have an eRx module. Participating in eRx and/or PQRI would more than make up for losses from Medicare physician fee