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| Eugene C NelsonSummaryAffiliation: Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Country: USA Publications
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Using data to improve medical practice by measuring processes and outcomes of careE C Nelson
Dartmouth Medical School, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Improv 26:667-85. 2000..quot; SUMMARY: Over the long term, we must transform thousands of local practice cultures so that useful data are used every day in countless ways to assist clinicians, support staff, patients, families, and communities...
Clinical microsystems, part 1. The building blocks of health systemsEugene C Nelson
Department of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 34:367-78. 2008....
Publicly reporting comprehensive quality and cost data: a health care system's transparency initiativeEugene C Nelson
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 31:573-84. 2005....
How many patients are needed to provide reliable evaluations of individual clinicians?Eugene C Nelson
Quality Education, Measurement and Research, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, USA
Med Care 42:259-66. 2004....
Good measurement for good improvement workEugene C Nelson
Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, NH, USA
Qual Manag Health Care 13:1-16. 2004..11. Review and document the strengths and limitations of your measurement work and use this knowledge to guide intelligent interpretation of the observed results...
Microsystems in health care: Part 1. Learning from high-performing front-line clinical unitsEugene C Nelson
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, One Medical Center Drive, Lebanon, NH 03756, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Improv 28:472-93. 2002..They are the place where patients and providers meet. The quality and value of care produced by a large health system can be no better than the services generated by the small systems of which it is composed...
Microsystems in health care: Part 2. Creating a rich information environmentEugene C Nelson
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Saf 29:5-15. 2003..DISCUSSION: Information exchange is the interface that connects staff to patients and staff to staff within the microsystem; microsystem to microsystem; and microsystem to macro-organization...
Microsystems in health care: Part 3. Planning patient-centered servicesMarjorie M Godfrey
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Saf 29:159-70. 2003..CONCLUSION: The design of services leads to critical analysis of the resources needed for the right person to deliver the right care, in the right way, at the right time...
Microsystems in health care: Part 4. Planning patient-centered careJohn H Wasson
Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Saf 29:227-37. 2003..CONCLUSION: Excellent planned services and planned care are attainable today in microsystems that understand what really matters to a patient and family and have the capacity to provide services to meet the patient's needs...
Microsystems in health care: Part 9. Developing small clinical units to attain peak performancePaul B Batalden
Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Saf 29:575-85. 2003....
Microsystems in health care: Part 5. How leaders are leadingPaul B Batalden
Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Saf 29:297-308. 2003..CONCLUSION: The focus on the processes of leading is intended to enable more people to develop into leaders and more people to share the roles of leading...
Microsystems in health care: Part 8. Developing people and improving work life: what front-line staff told usThomas P Huber
Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Saf 29:512-22. 2003..The case study offers an example of a microsystem that has motivated its staff and created a positive and dynamic workplace...
Clinical microsystems, Part 3. Transformation of two hospitals using microsystem, mesosystem, and macrosystem strategiesMarjorie M Godfrey
The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 34:591-603. 2008..Their improvement experience suggests tips and actions at all levels of the organization that could be adapted with specific context knowledge by others...
Clinical microsystems, part 2. Learning from micro practices about providing patients the care they want and needJohn H Wasson
Center for the Aging, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 34:445-52. 2008..Pati ents should be able to report that they receive "exactly the care they want and need exactly when and how they want and need it."..
Using a Malcolm Baldrige framework to understand high-performing clinical microsystemsTina C Foster
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA
Qual Saf Health Care 16:334-41. 2007..Several tools are available for those who wish to engage in self-assessment based on MBNQA criteria and microsystem characteristics...
Promoting quality improvement researchJudith E Frank
Quality Research Grant Program, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC, Hitchcock, New Hampshire, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Improv 28:451-2, 417. 2002..The authors show how an internal grant program can stimulate quality improvement research by providing technical and financial support to clinicians and employees...
The medium is the (health) measure: patient engagement using personal technologiesJohn H Wasson
Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Lebanon, NH 03766, USA
J Ambul Care Manage 35:109-17. 2012....
Automated detection of harm in healthcare with information technology: a systematic reviewMalavika Govindan
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, One Medical Center Drive, Lebanon, NH 03756, USA
Qual Saf Health Care 19:e11. 2010..Automated harm-detection methods using information technology show promise for efficiently measuring harm. However, there have been few systematic reviews of their effectiveness...
Microsystems in health care: Part 6. Designing patient safety into the microsystemJulie J Mohr
Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Saf 29:401-8. 2003..CONCLUSION: Safety is a property of a microsystem and it can be achieved only through thoughtful and systematic application of a broad array of process, equipment, organization, supervision, training, simulation, and team-work changes...
Quality improvement learning collaborativesLea R Ayers
University of Massachusetts Graduate School of Nursing Worcester, USA
Qual Manag Health Care 14:234-47. 2005....
Guidelines for appraisal and publication of PDSA quality improvementTheodore Speroff
Departments of Medicine and Preventive Medicine, Center for Health Services Research, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tenn 37232, USA
Qual Manag Health Care 13:33-9. 2004....
Patient characteristics can predict improvement in functional health after elective coronary artery bypass graftingKarl F Welke
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
Ann Thorac Surg 75:1849-55; discussion 1855. 2003..The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of CABG on the functional health of an elective population and to identify preoperative patient characteristics associated with improved functional health after surgery...
