National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ)

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JHQ CE 206 A Home for Medically Complex Children: The Role of Hospital Programs: The medical home is a conceptual model of continuous and comprehensive care provision that is associated with improved outcomes for children with special healthcare needs. Most ...; May/June 2008
JHQ (CE 205) The Association of Nursing Home Compare Quality Measures with Market Competition and Occupancy Rates: Since 2002, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have reported quality measures on the Nursing Home Compare Web site. It has been assumed that nursing homes are able to ...; March/April 2008
JHQ 204 Determinants of Adverse Events in Hospitals—The Potential Role of Patient Safety Culture: This study investigated two contributing factors in predicting adverse events in hospital settings. We approached this issue using the statistical procedure of hierarchical linear ...; January/February 2008
JHQ 203 False Alarms in Surgical Quality Control: Streakiness in performance is a well-known phenomenon. The theoretical adverse effect of such runs of outcomes on standard statistical process control tools is widely ...; January/February 2008
JHQ 202 The Art and Science of Preprinted Physician Orders: Defining how preprinted physician orders are developed within a hospital has the potential to positively affect patients’ care, services, safety, and outcomes. When they are well ...; November/December 2007