Appropriateness of hospital use in the United Kingdom: a review of activity in the field.

D O'Neill, M Pearson - International Journal for Quality in Health …, 1995 - europepmc.org
reviews experience, in both research and application, with measures of appropriateness
applied to the utilization of hospital … methods for measuring appropriateness of use and the …

Antimicrobial stewardship activities in hospitals in Ireland and the United Kingdom: a comparison of two national surveys

A Fleming, A Tonna, S O'Connor, S Byrne… - International journal of …, 2015 - Springer
… achieve higher rates of audit, prescription appropriateness review and feedback activities. …
achieve a more uniform playing field, with more Irish hospitals needing AMTs and dedicated …

British Cardiovascular Intervention Society Registry for audit and quality assessment of percutaneous coronary interventions in the United Kingdom

PF Ludman - Heart, 2011 - heart.bmj.com
… and structured monthly and quarterly reports of PCI activity, including … of data in the 12
key fields used for risk adjustment. … to allow appropriate numbers at risk at 1 year follow-up. …

Use of emergency observation and assessment wards: a systematic literature review

MW Cooke, J Higgins, P Kidd - Emergency Medicine Journal, 2003 - emj.bmj.com
… of emergency activity and resources in one area, and so … to be communication, appropriateness
of referral, finding beds, … to be made in the United States healthcare system. Table 1 …

A European version of the appropriateness evaluation protocol: goals and presentation

T Lang, A Liberati, A Tampieri, G Fellin… - International journal of …, 1999 - cambridge.org
… differ widely between the United States and Europe, and … reasons was found to be a neglected
area of research. In order to … The argument that the definition of hospital activity used for …

Cardiac intervention procedures in the United Kingdom 1997: developments in data collection

MA De Belder - Heart, 1999 - heart.bmj.com
… provide a means of appropriate analysis and feedback for centres … this field will determine
the outcomes that are appropriate as … will also allow greater collaboration with our European …

Invasive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in the United States

…, Active Bacterial Core surveillance (ABCs) MRSA … - Jama, 2007 - jamanetwork.com
… of MRSA and 1598 in-hospital deaths among patients with … , diagnosis, and appropriate
treatment of infections 45 -47 ; … from facilities using laboratories outside the surveillance area. …

[HTML][HTML] Burden of Clostridium difficile Infection in the United States

FC Lessa, Y Mu, WM Bamberg… - New England …, 2015 - Mass Medical Soc
… In 2011, we performed active population- and laboratory-… of 10% of cases with an onset in a
nursing home or hospital. … into pulsed-field types with the use of Dice coefficient analysis and …

Use of intensive care at the end of life in the United States: an epidemiologic study

DC Angus, AE Barnato, WT Linde-Zwirble… - Critical care …, 2004 - journals.lww.com
… appeared in any discharge diagnosis field. To create mutually … of whether that care was
appropriate. Second, our national … of overall hospital use in the United States overestimated the …

[PDF][PDF] Quality and accreditation in health care services: a global review

World Health Organization - 2003 - apps.who.int
… of health care and appropriate development and use of new … , the United Kingdom and
the United States have adopted … bring together activities in the Member States in the fields of …