Archivos de Calidad y Gestión Médica
Número 68, 15 de Marzo de 2012
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- INTERNAL MEDICINE: -BIOSIGNATURES DISTINGUISH BETWEEN TUBERCULOSIS Y SARCOIDOSIS
Various combinations of biomarkers are required to unequivocally diagnose a specific disease May 07, 2012 With a range of diseases, doctors need unique features which they can use to ...
- READMISSIONS REDUCTION REHOSPITALIZATION PROGRAM: -Medicare's readmissions-reduction program — a positive alternative
Hospital readmissions are receiving increasing attention as a largely correctable source of poor quality of care and excessive spending. According to a 2009 study, nearly 20% of Medicare ...
- SALUD PUBLICA: -PORQUE? "LA DEMASIADA MEDICINA" NOS VA HACIENDO MAS ENFERMO Y MÁS POBRESS
© 2008 Canadian Medical Association Demasiado medicamento Alan Cassels BA MPA + Afiliaciones de los autores Victoria, BC Sobretratados: ¿Por qué demasiada medicina ...
- QUALITY: -POSTMARKETING SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM: -Here we go again — another failure of postmarketing device surveillance
The goal of postmarketing surveillance of medical devices is to enhance public health by gathering information about the incidence of adverse experiences with devices. However, patients ...
- HOSPITAL DE DIA POLIVALENTE: -Ingresos evitados por el hospital de día médico polivalente
RESUMEN INTRODUCCIÓN El hospital de día es una alternativa a la hospitalización, que mejora la accesibilidad y el confort del paciente, evitando ingresos. No obstante, la ...
- ANALOGUE OF SILDENAFIL NEVER TESTED IN HUMANS: -QUALITY & SAFETY OF SUPPLEMENTS: -Assessing supplement safety — the FDA´s controversial proposal
Recently, a well-respected dietary-supplement company in Utah announced the recall of Zotrex, a sexual enhancement supplement labeled as containing “Ophioglossum polyphyllous.” The ...
- MANAGEMENT IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE HEALTH PLAINS: -Building the path to accountable care
The recent release of the regulations that will govern the early years of Medicare's implementation of accountable care organizations (ACOs) provides an important moment to reflect on the ...
- CLINICAL EFECTIVENESS: -Improving adherence — money isn't the only thing
Interventions that both improve outcomes and save costs are unusual, but the provision of lifesaving medications to survivors of myocardial infarction is one such example.1 In the past, ...
- QUALITY IN HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATIONS: -The four habits of high-value health care organizations
Recent attention to the question of value in health care — the ratio of outcomes to long-term costs — has focused on problems of definition and measurement: what outcomes and which ...
- NURSING HOME QUALITY: -Nursing home quality scorecards don't tell the whole score
INDIANAPOLIS — The scoring system government agencies use to rate nursing home quality does not provide an adequate evaluation because they do not take into account the degree of cognitive ...
- MANAGEMENT: -Making good on acos - promise — the final rule for the medicare shared savings program
During my career as a practicing pediatrician, my patients and I benefited from being part of a well-managed system of care, coordinated and financed to support seamlessness and ...
- SAFETY & QUALITY: -Patient safety and quality
Hospital-acquired infections dramatically increase trauma patients' risk of in-hospital death and hospital stay. Hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) are among the top five leading causes of ...
- CALIDAD ASISTENCIAL: -Evaluación de la calidad en el laboratorio en la fase preanalítica: un estudio multicéntrico
INTRODUCCIÓN El objetivo del trabajo es mostrar y analizar los resultados de errores preanalíticos en las muestras de laboratorio remitidas desde atención primaria a 7 ...
- OBSTETRICIA: -VALORACIÓN EPIDURAL:-Valoración de la satisfacción materna con la analgesia epidural para el trabajo del parto
OBJETIVOS Conocer el grado de satisfacción de las pacientes obstétricas a las que se les realiza la técnica epidural para el trabajo de parto. MATERIAL Y METODOS ...
- MANAGEMENT: -Why states are so miffed about medicaid — economics, politics, and the “woodwork effect”
Medicaid is under attack. During the past 6 months, various U.S. politicians have proposed radical restructuring, spending cuts, and even the outright elimination of the program. House ...
