Clinical performance and quality health care
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Clin Perform Qual Health Care · Jul 1996
Report of a continuous quality improvement program in a tertiary-care medical center.
Changes in the health system in Israel have led to an increasingly competitive environment, decentralization, and economic constraints. We evaluated the use of a continuous quality improvement (CQI) program. ⋯ Several factors were identified as essential to the success of the program, including staff cooperation and commitment. We conclude that the CQI program was a useful tool to help our tertiary-care medical center adjust to changes in the Israeli healthcare system. It also served as a valid vehicle for maintaining and furthering optimal quality of care.
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Clin Perform Qual Health Care · Jul 1996
Multidisciplinary patient management by means of a high social risk screening tool.
The long-term goal in this study was for the Memorial Hospital of Salem County, Inc (MHSC), to create a seamless system of continuity of care for patients. This continuity of care begins before patients require acute admission through the hospital course and extends beyond discharge and into the post-hospital setting or alternate care situation. ⋯ Critical to the success of this overall effort was not designing the new tool, but integrating the tool into a reengineered multidisciplinary patient management process.