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Improving physical performance reduces dysphagia via improvement of tongue strength in patients with acute heart failure: a two-wave cross-lagged mediation model analysis
BackgroundPhysical performance improvement through whole-body exercise may have a positive impact on dysphagia via improvement of maximum tongue...
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The impact of a sepsis performance improvement program in the emergency department: a before–after intervention study
PurposeThe latest Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines advocate that all hospitals use sepsis performance improvement programs. However, there is a...
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HIV rapid test performance among health facilities enrolled in HIV rapid test quality improvement initiative (RTQII) in Ethiopia
BackgroundAs the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) rapid testing services expanded to reach the global target that 95% of people living with the...
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Surveillance cardiopulmonary exercise testing can risk-stratify childhood cancer survivors: underlying pathophysiology of poor exercise performance and possible room for improvement
BackgroundAsymptomatic childhood cancer survivors (CCS) frequently show decreased exercise performance. Poor exercise performance may indicate...
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Trauma Center Performance Improvement Principles and Practice, With Illustrative Case Studies
Managing a trauma center involves complex clinical care, long nights and days, administrative work, self-examination, critical review of patient care...
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Current Application of Navigation Systems in Robotic-Assisted and Laparoscopic Partial Nephrectomy: Focus on the Improvement of Surgical Performance and Outcomes
Kidney cancer represents the third most prevalent malignancy among all types of genitourinary cancer worldwide. Currently, there is a growing trend...
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Evaluation of a Medicaid performance improvement project to reduce high-dose opioid prescriptions
BackgroundIn 2015, Oregon’s Medicaid program implemented a performance improvement project to reduce high-dose opioid prescribing across its 16...
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A systematic review of the evidence of how hospitals capture financial benefits of process improvement and the impact on hospital financial performance
BackgroundGovernments, funders and hospital managers around the world are looking for ways to address the continual growth in expenditure by reducing...
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Performance improvement in multi-label thoracic abnormality classification of chest X-rays with noisy labels
PurposeThis study aimed at develo** a deep learning-based method for multi-label thoracic abnormality classification on frontal view chest X-ray...
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Collateral Benefit of Systematic Improvement in Bariatric Surgery Outcomes Following a Single Quality Improvement Project for Bleeding
The study’s aim was not only to use quality improvement system techniques to improve patient care specifically for bleeding but also to track other...
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How does nursing-sensitive indicator feedback with nursing or interprofessional teams work and shape nursing performance improvement systems? A rapid realist review
BackgroundCare quality varies between organizations and even units within an organization. Inadequate care can have harmful financial and social...
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Closed loop communication in the trauma bay: identifying opportunities for team performance improvement through a video review analysis
ObjectivesCommunication among trauma team members in the trauma bay is vulnerable to errors, which may impact patient outcomes. We used the...
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Impact of multimodal strategies including a pay for performance strategy in the improvement of infection prevention and control practices in healthcare facilities during an Ebola virus disease outbreak
BackgroundStrategy to mitigate various Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreaks are focusing on Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) capacity building,...
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Increasing and sustaining discharges by noon – a multi-year process improvement project
High hospital occupancy degrades emergency department performance by increasing wait times, decreasing patient satisfaction, and increasing patient...
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Sepsis Performance Improvement Programs: From Evidence Toward Clinical Implementation
This article is one of ten reviews selected from the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2022. Other selected articles can be...
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Factors affecting cognitive frailty improvement and progression in Taiwanese older adults
BackgroundKnowledge of predictors of cognitive frailty (CF) trajectories is required to develop preventive strategies to delay or reverse the...
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Improvement and implementation of central sterile supply department training program based on action research
BackgroundThis study aimed to improve and implement the central sterile supply department (CSSD) training program through action research and to...
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Predictors of physical frailty improvement in older patients enrolled in a multidisciplinary cardiac rehabilitation program
Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) improves clinical and functional recovery in older patients after acute cardiac syndromes, whose outcome is influenced by...
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How do healthcare providers use national audit data for improvement?
BackgroundSubstantial resources are invested by Health Departments worldwide in introducing National Clinical Audits (NCAs). Yet, there is variable...
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Visual impairment burden in retinopathy of prematurity: trends, inequalities, and improvement gaps
Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is an important cause of avoidable childhood visual impairment, and the increase in number and survival of premature...
