... professions Effective engagement Outcomes Patient safety This is a time of unprecedented challenges in the National Health Service (NHS) including the financial challenges of a projected shortfall in funding of £2 billion by 2020 (Roberts et al., 2015), £8 billion if adult social care...

... process. The sharing dimension scores predicted patient satisfaction better than the caring dimension. Krupat et al.’s (2000) work was important in developing a major construct: doctors’ practice orientation, in the Doctor-Patient Trust Outcomes Model and identifying the practice orientation...

... that they definitely or probably handled patient care differently using information obtained through the library. In a multivariate analysis, three summary clinical outcome measures were used as value and impact indicators: first, time saved; second, patient care changes; and third, adverse events avoided...

... surgeons and trainees. Mats Lundström can be contacted at: mats.lundstrom@karlskrona.mail.telia.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Quality improvement Benchmarking Clinical guidelines Outcomes Disease registry Web-based expert system The purpose of this report...

...Jessie L. Tucker, III Physician profiling is the comparison of physician practice patterns to determine the existence and effects of significant differences in outcomes. To optimize care quality, these comparisons can be used to influence provider behavior through awareness when outcomes are poor...

... of maternal complications. Four health facilities were purposely selected to act as sentinel centres from urban and rural clusters. All the obstetric‐related cases were recorded between January and July 1997, and the outcomes of the pregnancies were recorded. Details on the respondents socioeconomic...

...Sean McCartney; Reva Berman Brown The paper explores the literature concerning outcome measures used in health services. The need to measure outcomes subsequent to encounters with health services has been identified and occurs as a result of the current “value for money” approaches being used...

... and the observed outcome percentage were recorded. This was the proportion of hospitalized patients who actually died during the follow‐up period or, alternatively, the proportion of patients who had to be rehospitalized, or of those who returned to work during the follow‐up period. These data were contrasted...

...Samia Siha As health care moves from a fee‐for‐service environment to a capitated arena, outcome measurements must change. ABC Children’s Medical Center is challenged with developing comprehensive outcome measures for an employed physician group. An extensive literature review validates...

... predicted their broad clinical management. Patients are becoming more informed users of mental health care services. Addressing their attitudes and expectations directly at the first outpatient attendance may help in predicting final clinical outcome, and assist in the efficient management of limited...

... Canada, a great deal of interest in outcomes research has been generated. States that the research team consisted of 17 professional practice leaders from eight disciplines. Proposes, through the research, to identify from the perspective of former patients what results they hoped to achieve prior...

... to have reviewed baseline practice before implementation. © MCB UP Limited 1997 Auditing guidelines Health care Outcomes Presents a study which investigates how it was planned to implement guidelines from the Scottish intercollegiate guidelines network (SIGN). The study aimed to describe...

... development of such services. Explores the problems inherent in assessing outcomes in chronic pain. These include the complexity of the chronic pain syndrome itself, the multidimensional nature of interventions and the challenges of defining outcomes in the chronic illness syndrome. The complexity...

...Gillian Fairfield; Andrew F. Long Discusses measuring outcomes in the context of disease management and provides a single framework in the form of a key question checklist. Identifies key stakeholders. Outlines levels of outcome monitoring, measurement and date type and source. The development...