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Education & Educational Research
Zuneera Khurshid, Aoife De Brun, Eilish McAuliffe
Summary: This study explores the factors that influence the development of measurement for improvement skills in healthcare professionals, including training, curriculum, and contextual factors. Through analyzing interviews with trainees and trainers, several themes emerged, such as differences in job role and hierarchy, narrow conception of quality improvement, knowledge disparity, and balancing the benefits and burdens of measurement. The study highlights the importance of collaboration between trainees, trainers, and organizations in order to achieve sustainable skill development.
BMC MEDICAL EDUCATION
(2022)
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Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Douglas P. Fry, Genevieve Souillac, Larry Liebovitch, Peter T. Coleman, Kane Agan, Elliot Nicholson-Cox, Dani Mason, Frank Palma Gomez, Susie Strauss
Summary: A comparative anthropological perspective demonstrates the existence of peaceful social systems where neighboring societies do not engage in war with each other, providing valuable insights into how to successfully cooperate to maintain peace. Peace systems, although understudied, hold important knowledge and principles for promoting international cooperation and addressing global challenges. The study finds that factors contributing to intergroup peace are more developed within peace systems, with non-warring norms, rituals, and values being the most important for achieving a peace system outcome.
HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES COMMUNICATIONS
(2021)
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Anthropology
Anne C. Pisor, Cody T. Ross
Summary: This article examines the distinct features and importance of intergroup and long-distance relationships, using a case study from rural Bolivia as an illustration. It emphasizes the significance of validating experimental field data with ethnography.
HUMAN NATURE-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY BIOSOCIAL PERSPECTIVE
(2022)
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Geriatrics & Gerontology
Reena Devi, Neil H. Chadborn, Julienne Meyer, Jay Banerjee, Claire Goodman, Tom Dening, John R. F. Gladman, Kathryn Hinsliff-Smith, Annabelle Long, Adeela Usman, Gemma Housley, Sarah Lewis, Matthew Glover, Heather Gage, Philippa A. Logan, Finbarr C. Martin, Adam L. Gordon
Summary: This study explored how QICs work to improve healthcare in care homes, finding that QICs need to have a broad and easily understandable remit, recruit staff with established partnership working, build relationships, minimize hierarchy, protect and pay for staff time, enable staff to implement improvements aligned with existing work. However, teams did not use measurement for change, citing difficulties integrating this into pre-existing workload.
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Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Brigid K. Grabert, Jennifer Heisler-MacKinnon, Amy Liu, Marjorie A. Margolis, Elizabeth D. Cox, Melissa B. Gilkey
Summary: Healthcare systems are crucial partners in implementing HPV vaccination quality improvement programs. While most QI leaders endorse the benefits of HPV vaccination, concerns exist such as small adolescent patient populations, lack of provider buy-in, and competing priorities in health services. Barriers to implementing HPV vaccine QI programs include limited data systems, time constraints, and fee-for-service pressures, while facilitators include automation and passionate vaccine champions.
HUMAN VACCINES & IMMUNOTHERAPEUTICS
(2021)
Review
Health Care Sciences & Services
Xiaoyu Wang, Yi Xie, Xuejie Yang, Dongxiao Gu
Summary: With the development of new-generation information technology and increasing health needs, the requirements for Chinese medicine (CM) services have shifted toward the 5P medical mode. This study investigates the current state of development of CM knowledge services and emphasizes the need for accurate and sophisticated knowledge service in the modernization of CM. The study also explores the concept of smart CM knowledge services and its main features, as well as the intelligent service method of traditional Chinese medicine under the 5P medical mode.
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Einar Hovlid, Gunnar Husabo, Inger Lise Teig, Kjersti Halvorsen, Jan C. Frich
Summary: External inspections are a crucial part of healthcare regulation, but their impact on quality improvement is not well understood. A study in Norway found that for inspections to contribute to improvement, there must be structures in place that support accountability and engage staff. When these structures are present, inspections can create awareness of gaps and stimulate change.
SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE
(2022)
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Health Care Sciences & Services
Rachel Thienprayoon, Emma Jones, Lisa Humphrey, Lindsay Ragsdale, Conrad Williams, Jeffrey C. Klick
Summary: The Pediatric Palliative Improvement Network (PPIN) is a sustainable organization that focuses on national quality improvement methods training, collaborative projects, and peer support community to enhance the quality of pediatric palliative care.
JOURNAL OF PAIN AND SYMPTOM MANAGEMENT
(2022)
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Health Care Sciences & Services
Dianna Cheney-Peters, Elizabeth Liveright, Christine Shusted, Jacqueline F. Sinnott, Gretchen Diemer, Rebecca Jaffe
Summary: This research describes and evaluates a novel curriculum and learning community aimed at improving quality improvement for healthcare equity. The curriculum utilized a virtual hub-and-spoke learning community to address existing healthcare inequities using quality improvement methods. Participants reported an increase in knowledge and skills and an increased likelihood of future engagement in healthcare equity quality improvement.
JOURNAL OF GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE
(2023)
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Psychology, Social
Amelia Stillwell, Brian S. Lowery
Summary: White women face differential social penalties for intimate intergroup contact, perceived as gender deviant and low status within the group. Gender norms play a critical role in the maintenance of American racial boundaries.
JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Anna D. Gage, Tamar Gotsadze, Endris Seid, Ronald Mutasa, Jed Friedman
Summary: The Zimbabwe Ministry of Health and Child Care implemented a Continuous Quality Improvement pilot in 2016 to improve maternal, newborn, and child health services. The study shows that the implementation of the pilot led to quality improvement in postnatal care and maternal delivery care in primary health centers. Factors enabling these improvements included strong leadership, teamwork, and supportive supervision, while fragmented quality assurance policies, staff shortages, and gaps in training impeded progress. The study suggests that CQI should be seen as one potential tool for improving healthcare quality in Zimbabwe, within a broader health systems quality improvement strategy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE
(2022)
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Rikki H. Sargent, Abigail J. Caselli, Laura V. Machia, Leonard S. Newman
Summary: Previous experiences with police can influence civilian perceptions of police and their expectations for future encounters. Positive contact with the police predicts favorable attitudes, while unpleasant contact predicts negative attitudes. This research provides preliminary evidence of a process in which contact shapes general perceptions, ultimately affecting anticipated police behavior.
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
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Business
Assadej Vanichchinchai
Summary: This research examines the relationships among leadership and culture, human resources and process improvement in lean hospitals from the socio-technical perspective. The survey instrument was developed and data was collected from 473 care providers in 220 outpatient departments of Thai hospitals. The findings suggest that human resources have a significant positive direct effect on process improvement, and leadership and culture have both direct and indirect positive impacts on process improvement through human resources.
BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
(2023)
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Health Care Sciences & Services
John Jacob, Chelsea Stunden, Sima Zakani
Summary: Three-dimensional printing is widely used in clinical medicine for surgical planning, education, and medical device fabrication. A survey conducted in a tertiary care hospital in Canada found that surgeons and specialists consider three-dimensional models more beneficial than radiologists, especially in evaluating the likelihood of success or failure of clinical management strategies and for intraoperative orientation. The study also showed that three-dimensional printed models could improve perioperative metrics but may increase pre-procedural planning time.
Review
Health Care Sciences & Services
Claire Willmington, Paolo Belardi, Anna Maria Murante, Milena Vainieri
Summary: Benchmarking has a positive association with quality improvement in healthcare, and interventions complementary to benchmarking can reinforce this improvement.
BMC HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH
(2022)
