Abstract:
:This article briefly describes natural induction approach to knowledge discovery, and then applies it to the problem of bad habit relapse prevention by analyzing patients' diaries. Natural induction seeks patterns in data that are in forms easy to understand and interpret, because they resemble those in which humans represent knowledge, such as natural language descriptions and visual forms. The application of natural induction to the problem of bad habit relapse has produced patterns easy to understand, in some cases of surprising simplicity.
journal_name
Qual Manag Health Carejournal_title
Quality management in health careauthors
Wojtusiak J,Michalski RSdoi
10.1097/01.QMH.0000308640.89602.b1subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2008-01-01 00:00:00pages
80-9issue
1eissn
1063-8628issn
1550-5154pii
00019514-200801000-00010journal_volume
17pub_type
杂志文章abstract::While data collection is fundamental to any scientifically based effort, health care improvement teams often report that it is one of the most frustrating aspects of their work. Groups that do succeed in gathering some data can also sometimes find that the data they have worked so hard to obtain does not really help t...
journal_title:Quality management in health care
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:
更新日期:1994-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:This pilot study describes the development of an instrument to measure nursing quality knowledge, skills, and attitudes for practicing pediatric oncology nurses. Because many nurse leaders of academic centers are responsible for outcomes at both local and global level, ensuring nursing quality is critical, gi...
journal_title:Quality management in health care
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/QMH.0b013e3181aea256
更新日期:2009-07-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Hospitals establish surgical assessment units to promote efficiency and improve patient experience. Surgical assessment units are believed to reduce unnecessary admissions. We evaluated a hospital's on-call surgery service without this facility to determine benefits of implementation. METHODS:All emergency ...
journal_title:Quality management in health care
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/QMH.0000000000000236
更新日期:2020-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Like many organizations, Continental Rehabilitation Hospital of San Diego designs and communicates templates and targets for desired changes in behaviors and tracks results. It recognizes and celebrates successes and struggles with its failures. A recent case example demonstrates the importance of generating immediate...
journal_title:Quality management in health care
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00019514-199706010-00007
更新日期:1997-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::The aim of this study is to empirically identify and present different kinds of practice-based improvement ideas developed in health care services. The focus is on individual placement needs, problems/issues, and the ability to organize work on the development, implementation, and institutionalization of ideas for the...
journal_title:Quality management in health care
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/QMH.0b013e3182134b3c
更新日期:2011-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::A variety of approaches are available to monitor and quantify the frequency of medical errors and the harm associated with them. The University HealthSystem Consortium Patient Safety Net provides a categorical, rank-ordered approach for designating harm associated with medical errors but does not lend itself to routin...
journal_title:Quality management in health care
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/QMH.0b013e3181fa074e
更新日期:2010-10-01 00:00:00
abstract:INTRODUCTION:Real-time location systems (RTLS) and Lean management approaches have been employed to improve patient flow in clinical settings. This study explored the feasibility of using these methodologies in an outpatient resident ophthalmology clinic. METHODS:Patients, providers, and staff in Wilmer Eye Institute ...
journal_title:Quality management in health care
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/QMH.0000000000000075
更新日期:2015-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::The physician-patient relationship is an essential part of end-of-life planning, including discussions of advance directives (AD). Physicians likely to encounter AD issues with their patients were identified and queried as to their knowledge, opinion, and experience with ADs. Though most physicians felt ADs were helpf...
journal_title:Quality management in health care
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00019514-200008030-00004
更新日期:2000-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::The U.S. Healthcare Fellowship in Quality Management at Hahnemann University was developed by a managed health care organization and health science university in order to train physicians in the theory and practice of quality management and clinical outcomes measurement. This article describes in detail the program co...
journal_title:Quality management in health care
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1996-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Quality indicators and a quality-monitoring system developed for use in the regulatory survey process offer a quality improvement tool for nursing home staff. The systematic use of resident assessment data can aid in the identification of quality of care problems and the determination of the nature of those problems. ...
journal_title:Quality management in health care
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00019514-199604030-00008
更新日期:1996-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::Should the United States require mandatory reporting of medical errors within the health care system? Many barriers to medical error reporting currently exist and have made it difficult to establish a nationwide reporting system. As such, individual states have begun to address this issue one state at a time. This art...
journal_title:Quality management in health care
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/01.QMH.0000344594.48510.82
更新日期:2009-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Popular quality improvement tools such as Six Sigma and Lean Systems (SS/L) claim to provide health care managers the opportunity to improve health care quality on the basis of sound methodology and data. However, it is unclear whether these 2 quality improvement tools actually improve health care quality. ...
journal_title:Quality management in health care
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/QMH.0b013e3181eb140e
更新日期:2010-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::Given the revolutionary changes occurring in the health care industry, there is increasing agreement that academicians and practitioners must collaborate to identify and prioritize major educational outcomes for health care management. Several competency initiatives have been undertaken or completed in health care and...
journal_title:Quality management in health care
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00019514-200211010-00006
更新日期:2002-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Patient flow improvement strategies have been effective in reducing emergency department (ED) crowding, but little guidance is available on the implementation process. By using a qualitative research design, our objective was to identify common facilitators and barriers to the implementation of patient flow improvemen...
journal_title:Quality management in health care
pub_type: 杂志文章,多中心研究
doi:10.1097/QMH.0b013e318222a3b0
更新日期:2011-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::This article examines a recently implemented strategy to transfer responsibility for local public health service delivery from a county health department to a hospital-based integrated delivery system. Innovative quality management efforts at both local and state levels offer opportunities for sustained improvement in...
journal_title:Quality management in health care
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00019514-199705020-00003
更新日期:1997-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:AIMS:The purpose of this quantitative descriptive correlational study was to assess for presence and degree of critical thinking skills among perioperative (OR) nurses. BACKGROUND:Critical thinking has become a multidisciplinary "buzz phrase"; however, critical thinking, reflective thinking, or mental discipline was d...
journal_title:Quality management in health care
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/QMH.0b013e3181dafec7
更新日期:2010-04-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:In Thailand, hospital accreditation (HA) is widely recognized as one of the system tools to promote effective operation of universal health coverage. This nationwide study aims to examine the relationship between accredited statuses of the provincial hospitals and their mortality outcomes. METHOD:A 5-year r...
journal_title:Quality management in health care
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/QMH.0000000000000256
更新日期:2020-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::The p chart is widely used in health care and other service organizations as well as in manufacturing to monitor the proportion of observations with some particular characteristic for comparing several sources of data or for tracking a single source of data over time. The conventional approach is to use 3sigma limits ...
journal_title:Quality management in health care
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/01.QMH.0000267449.32629.b1
更新日期:2007-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::The authors collected data from the record of a patient who had recently undergone coronary bypass surgery and used these data to construct control charts. The control charts helped them to interpret the variation in several clinical parameters and to evaluate the clinical responses to this variation. ...
journal_title:Quality management in health care
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1994-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::The Agency for Health Care Policy and Research pain guidelines and implementation theories were used in this improvement initiative to ensure that evidence-based pain management reached every provider and patient in a large tertiary care hospital. Implementation strategies, products, and outcome measures are described...
journal_title:Quality management in health care
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00019514-199907020-00004
更新日期:1999-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Most health care organizations are using critical pathways in an attempt to reduce the variation in patient care, improve quality, enhance communication, and reduce costs. Virtually all of the critical path efforts to date have developed tables of treatments, medications, and so forth by day and have displayed them in...
journal_title:Quality management in health care
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00019514-199503020-00005
更新日期:1995-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:CONTEXT:In October 2008, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reduced payments to hospitals for a group of hospital-acquired conditions (HACs) not documented as present on admission (POA). It is unknown what proportion of Medicare severity diagnosis related group (MS-DRG) assignments will change when the Intern...
journal_title:Quality management in health care
pub_type: 历史文章,杂志文章
doi:10.1097/QMH.0b013e3181ccbd07
更新日期:2010-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:Implementing change in a health care organization poses structural and cultural challenges. DESIGN:We developed a survey derived from an existing organizational change model and distributed it to the target population of an impending change initiative. RESULTS:The respondents (59.2% response rate) indicated...
journal_title:Quality management in health care
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/QMH.0000000000000061
更新日期:2015-07-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE:Medical home care has been identified as a model for improving primary care delivery and population-specific quality and safety outcomes. Questions remain how this model affects older adult quality. This systematic review addresses 2 important questions: Are quality and safety outcomes associated with medical h...
journal_title:Quality management in health care
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/QMH.0000000000000041
更新日期:2014-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Recently in this journal, F. Alemi (Qual Manage Health Care. 2004;13(4):216-221) proposed the use of Tukey's Control Chart because of the unique benefits associated with nonparametric inferential statistics including robust performance with (1) low N sizes, (2) nonnormal data, and (3) the presence of outliers, However...
journal_title:Quality management in health care
pub_type: 评论,杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00019514-200504000-00006
更新日期:2005-04-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:The aim of this umbrella review was to summarize the research evidence on programs to improve the transition between ambulatory and hospital care. METHODS:The MEDLINE database and the Cochrane library were searched. Systematic reviews of randomized controlled trials published between January 2000 and Septem...
journal_title:Quality management in health care
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/QMH.0000000000000244
更新日期:2020-04-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:We explored the associations between opioid dose and multiple measures of pain. STUDY DESIGN AND MEASURES:Thirty-two consecutive patients admitted solely for an acute exacerbation of cancer-related pain or for surgery were followed for their entire hospital stay (115 days of pain). For each hospital day, we ...
journal_title:Quality management in health care
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/QMH.0000000000000009
更新日期:2013-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::With costs and competitive pressures increasing, pharmaceutical sponsors and contract research organizations are examining the drug development process. Investigators who conduct clinical studies significantly impact research quality and, thereby, costs. This article reviews current investigator selection methods and ...
journal_title:Quality management in health care
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00019514-199907030-00004
更新日期:1999-04-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:To describe health care staff members' usage and documentation in a Swedish quality registry focusing on a preventive care process regarding the risk area of malnutrition among persons with dementia. The preventive care process includes risk assessment, analysis of underlying causes, planning and performing ...
journal_title:Quality management in health care
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/QMH.0000000000000116
更新日期:2017-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:CONTEXT:The phrase "Science of Improvement" or "Improvement Science" is commonly used today by a range of people and professions to mean different things, creating confusion to those trying to learn about improvement. In this article, we briefly define the concepts of improvement and science, and review the history of ...
journal_title:Quality management in health care
pub_type: 历史文章,杂志文章
doi:10.1097/QMH.0b013e31829a6a15
更新日期:2013-07-01 00:00:00