Background Measurement of surgical quality at a population level is challenging. Composite
quality measures derived from administrative and clinical information systems could support …

Objective Single-case research allows for an examination of behavior and can demonstrate
the functional relation between intervention and outcome in pediatric psychology. This …

Document digitization has important industrial applications and automation of this process
can unlock significant business value, especially when documents are in the form of image …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore waiting times in improving access to
psychological therapies (IAPT) services before and throughout the COVID-19 pandemic …

Context can influence cancer-related outcomes. For example, health-care organization
characteristics, including ownership, leadership, and culture, can affect care access …

The decision to hospitalize a psychiatric patient against their will is an ethically and clinically
complex problem. While there is variation in rates of involuntary hospitalization (IH) across …

Methods: A multidisciplinary quality improvement (QI) team used QI tools to design
interventions to improve the efficiency of the ordering process for blood products. Measures …

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The importance of patient flow as a construct is clearly evident today in healthcare
institutions and conferences, but, as with manufacturing, there needs to be a mechanism …

Despite advances in prostate cancer treatment, wide variability in post-operative oncologic
and functional outcomes are observed. Effective management of prostate cancer requires …