Eugene C Nelson

Summary

Affiliation: Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Using data to improve medical practice by measuring processes and outcomes of care
    E C Nelson
    Dartmouth Medical School, USA
    Jt Comm J Qual Improv 26:667-85. 2000
  2. ncbi Clinical microsystems, part 1. The building blocks of health systems
    Eugene 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
  3. ncbi Publicly reporting comprehensive quality and cost data: a health care system's transparency initiative
    Eugene C Nelson
    Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA
    Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 31:573-84. 2005
  4. ncbi 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
  5. ncbi Good measurement for good improvement work
    Eugene C Nelson
    Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, NH, USA
    Qual Manag Health Care 13:1-16. 2004
  6. ncbi Microsystems in health care: Part 1. Learning from high-performing front-line clinical units
    Eugene C Nelson
    Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, One Medical Center Drive, Lebanon, NH 03756, USA
    Jt Comm J Qual Improv 28:472-93. 2002
  7. ncbi Microsystems in health care: Part 2. Creating a rich information environment
    Eugene C Nelson
    Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA
    Jt Comm J Qual Saf 29:5-15. 2003
  8. ncbi Microsystems in health care: Part 3. Planning patient-centered services
    Marjorie M Godfrey
    Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA
    Jt Comm J Qual Saf 29:159-70. 2003
  9. ncbi Microsystems in health care: Part 4. Planning patient-centered care
    John H Wasson
    Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
    Jt Comm J Qual Saf 29:227-37. 2003
  10. ncbi Microsystems in health care: Part 9. Developing small clinical units to attain peak performance
    Paul B Batalden
    Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
    Jt Comm J Qual Saf 29:575-85. 2003

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Publications22

  1. ncbi Using data to improve medical practice by measuring processes and outcomes of care
    E 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...
  2. ncbi Clinical microsystems, part 1. The building blocks of health systems
    Eugene 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
    ....
  3. ncbi Publicly reporting comprehensive quality and cost data: a health care system's transparency initiative
    Eugene C Nelson
    Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA
    Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 31:573-84. 2005
    ....
  4. ncbi 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
    ....
  5. ncbi Good measurement for good improvement work
    Eugene 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...
  6. ncbi Microsystems in health care: Part 1. Learning from high-performing front-line clinical units
    Eugene 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...
  7. ncbi Microsystems in health care: Part 2. Creating a rich information environment
    Eugene 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...
  8. ncbi Microsystems in health care: Part 3. Planning patient-centered services
    Marjorie 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...
  9. ncbi Microsystems in health care: Part 4. Planning patient-centered care
    John 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...
  10. ncbi Microsystems in health care: Part 9. Developing small clinical units to attain peak performance
    Paul B Batalden
    Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
    Jt Comm J Qual Saf 29:575-85. 2003
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  11. ncbi Microsystems in health care: Part 5. How leaders are leading
    Paul 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...
  12. ncbi Microsystems in health care: Part 8. Developing people and improving work life: what front-line staff told us
    Thomas 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...
  13. ncbi Clinical microsystems, Part 3. Transformation of two hospitals using microsystem, mesosystem, and macrosystem strategies
    Marjorie 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...
  14. ncbi Clinical microsystems, part 2. Learning from micro practices about providing patients the care they want and need
    John 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."..
  15. ncbi Using a Malcolm Baldrige framework to understand high-performing clinical microsystems
    Tina 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...
  16. ncbi Promoting quality improvement research
    Judith 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...
  17. ncbi The medium is the (health) measure: patient engagement using personal technologies
    John H Wasson
    Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Lebanon, NH 03766, USA
    J Ambul Care Manage 35:109-17. 2012
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  18. ncbi Automated detection of harm in healthcare with information technology: a systematic review
    Malavika 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...
  19. ncbi Microsystems in health care: Part 6. Designing patient safety into the microsystem
    Julie 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...
  20. ncbi Quality improvement learning collaboratives
    Lea R Ayers
    University of Massachusetts Graduate School of Nursing Worcester, USA
    Qual Manag Health Care 14:234-47. 2005
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  21. ncbi Guidelines for appraisal and publication of PDSA quality improvement
    Theodore 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
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  22. ncbi Patient characteristics can predict improvement in functional health after elective coronary artery bypass grafting
    Karl 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...