... Limited 2012 National health insurance system Non‐profit For‐profit Medicaid Health care Social insurance United States of America Meanwhile, perhaps masked by that drama, another important change has been occurring. More and more state governments are shifting administration...

... reporting Healthcare‐associated infections Central line‐associated bloodstream infection rates Health care Hospitals United States of America The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN), and before it the CDC's National Nosocomial Infection...

... States of America William R. Jarvis can be contacted at: wrjmj@aol.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Surveillance for healthcare‐associated infections (HAIs) has been ongoing in the USA since the late 1960s or early 1970s. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC...

.... and Melano , R.G. (2011), “ New Delhi Metallo‐β‐Lactamase, Ontario, Canada ”, Emerging Infectious Diseases , Vol. 17 No. 2 , available at: 10.3201/eid1702.101561 (accessed 23 September 2011). Healthcare associated infections Mandatory public reporting Health care Canada United States...

... care Research United States of America In New York State (NYS), Public Health Law 2819 was signed by the Governor in July 2005 making it the seventh state to pass legislation requiring mandatory, public reporting of healthcare‐associated infections (HAIs). Of the six other states, three had...

.... David Birnbaum can be contacted at: david.birnbaum@ubc.ca © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Healthcare‐associated infections Mandatory public reporting Health care United States of America Typical public health prevention efforts, like smoking cessation, have well‐defined...

... to and supporting highly trained professionals' and organizational self‐image (see below). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Patient care Accidents Health care United States of America The recent publication in the NEJM estimating the rate of adverse events (AEs) in ten North...

... prototypes. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Customer satisfaction Hospitals Performance management Worldwide web Information systems United States of America Starting in the late 1990s, few States had posted public information about patient satisfaction and hospital...

... stakeholders. Rita L. Ratcliffe can be contacted at: DrRitaMedEx@aol.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Health services Hospitals Quality improvement Patient care United States of America On September 26, 2008, the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) approved...

... Group Publishing Limited 2008 Quality improvement Ethics Service failures Health services United States of America 1. creating a short checklist that translates established evidence‐based recommendations (to simply implement guideline actions already recommended by respected...

... Hospitals United States of America Information disclosure North America's hospitals have individually maintained adverse event rate records for many decades, with infection surveillance and control programs tending to be the best validated and most sophisticated among their patient safety programs...

... Health services Quality improvement United States of America Health care disparities are themselves a subset of poor quality care. Health care disparities can be thought of as resulting from structures of care and processes of care that are somehow flawed, resulting in outcomes of care...

... of the partnership. Public health Health services United States of America Effective health care systems take the pulse of their served communities and understand the complex set of factors affecting population health. A recent project that helped public health systems perform these exact functions...

...‐based practice United States of America Other health policy groups, such as the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health, have recommended against the use of BSE due to potential harmful outcomes. The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health labels BSE a Grade D recommendation, stating that BSE...

.... The IHD medications evaluated in our study included: aspirin (ASA), beta‐blockers (BB’s), angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEI’s) or angiotensin receptor blockers (ARB’s), and lipid‐lowering therapy. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Medical practice Heart Hospitals United States...

... of primary care must change. More than likely, both will have to happen. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Health services Primary care United States of America Through the mid‐twentieth century, primary care was largely a fee for service operation with the physician setting rates and patients...