September 22, 2009 - From 2004 to 2008, St. Charles Hospital achieved dramatic improvement on process-of-care measures, particularly on those intended to reduce surgical complications. This case study examines how they achieved these quality improvements.
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September 29, 2008 - The Johns Hopkins Hospital is a 900-bed academic medical center affiliated with the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and is one of three acute care hospitals in the Johns Hopkins Health System.
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July 24, 2008 - Case studies of two leading health care organizations show that they share a common perspective of quality improvement (QI) as integral to excellence in clinical practice and, therefore, subject to the same ethical obligation to deliver the best possible care to patients.
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August 13, 2004 - A number of public and private insurance programs, including Canada's PharmaCare, have begun to restrict coverage of new drugs unless there is evidence that they improve health outcomes or achieve the same health outcomes as existing treatments at a lower cost.
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August 13, 2004 - Germany aims to create incentives for health insurers to enroll chronically ill people and to improve quality and efficiency of care through the use of evidence-based guidelines, formularies of effective drugs, and improved coordination.
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