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The Official Journal of the
National Association for Healthcare Quality
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November/December 2007
Table of Contents
FEATURE ARTICLES
JHQ Web Exclusives
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Non-Nephrologist and Nephrologist Perspectives on Implementing a Chronic Kidney Disease Guideline
Meenal B. Patwardhan, David B. Matchar, William E. Haley, Gregory P. Samsa |
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q&a: Tracy Sklar on Advancing Improvement in Acute Care
Media Reviews
Quality NETwork
Quality Products and Resources
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Abstract: Defining how preprinted physician orders are developed within a hospital has the potential to positively affect patients� care, services, safety, and outcomes. Designing good preprinted orders is both an art and a science that can benefit all hospitalized patients and all disciplines within healthcare.
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Variation in the Use of Nursing Home Deficiency Citations
Nicholas G. Castle, John Engberg, Aiju Men
Abstract: An analysis of survey deficiencies received by nursing homes in the yearly survey and certification process suggests that recent changes to the process by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have had little impact on the considerable variation in the use of deficiency citations. The high degree of variation limits the usefulness of deficiency citations not only for CMS but also for consumers and providers.
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Measuring Quality in Long-Term Care: A 360-Degree Approach
Leigh Anne Clark
Abstract: Advocates for a patient-centered approach to measuring quality in long-term care (LTC) urge a shift to an assessment of functional quality that is heavily reliant on input from the service recipient. Because a more comprehensive approach to quality is warranted in LTC, recommendations are made for using a 360-degree approach.
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Interview with a Quality Leader: Barry Straube on the CMS Office of Clinical Standards and Quality
Pamela K. Scarrow
Abstract: Barry M. Straube, MD, is director of the Office of Clinical Standards and Quality and chief medical officer at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
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Brief Report: Measuring the Quality of Pediatric Day Surgery Care
Erica Amari, Diana M. Murray, Christine Vandebeek, Carolyne J. Montgomery, Erik Skarsgard, Fay Warnock, J. Mark Ansermino
Abstract: This brief report describes the process of developing a valid and reliable questionnaire for quality measurement of pediatric day surgery care from the families� perspective. |
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Brief Report: The Use of Open-Access Scheduling for the Elderly
E. Paul Cherniack, Lauran Sandals, Delanne Gillespie, Elba Maymi, Enrique Aguilar
Abstract: When open-access scheduling, a method of reducing both waits in access to care and the number of appointments missed by outpatients, was used by the Department of Veterans Affairs in Miami, FL, no significant reduction occurred in numbers of patients seen, and the number of missed appointments decreased significantly.
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5 Acknowledgments
6 Letter to the Editor in Chief
50 Index to Volume 29 (2007)
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Editorial: Farewell
Luc R. Pelletier
Guest Editorial: Culture Change in Long-Term Care
Diane M. Peters
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