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| Kuo Piao ChungSummaryAffiliation: National Taiwan University Country: Taiwan Publications
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Are quality improvement methods a fashion for hospitals in Taiwan?Kuo Piao Chung
Institute of Health Policy and Management, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Int J Qual Health Care 24:371-9. 2012..This study reviews the rise and fall of the quality improvement (QI) methods implemented by hospitals in Taiwan, and examines the factors related to these methods...- Organization-based performance measures of cancer care quality: core measure development for breast cancer in TaiwanK P Chung
Graduate Institute of Health Crae Organization Administration, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Eur J Cancer Care (Engl) 17:5-18. 2008..Our experience can be extended to other cancer sites and adapted to link with pay for performance or certification program in cancer care... 
Is quality of colorectal cancer care good enough? Core measures development and its application for comparing hospitals in TaiwanKuo Piao Chung
Graduate Institute of Health Care Organization Administration, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
BMC Health Serv Res 10:27. 2010..The purpose of this study was to develop organization-based core measures for colorectal cancer patient care and apply these measures to compare hospital performance...- Re-examining the significance of surgical volume to breast cancer survival and recurrence versus process quality of care in TaiwanRaymond N Kuo
Center of Comparative Effectiveness Research, National Center of Excellence for Clinical Trial and Research, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
Health Serv Res 48:26-46. 2013..This study explored the association of surgical volume versus process quality with breast cancer survival and recurrence... - Evaluation of lymph nodes in patients with colon cancer undergoing colon resection: a population-based studyYun Jau Chang
Department of General Surgery, Zhongxing Branch, Taipei City Hospital, No 145, Zhengzhou Road, Datong District, Taipei, 100, Taiwan
World J Surg 36:1906-14. 2012..The present study was designed to assess the prognostic value among these lymph node evaluations... - Application of propensity score model to examine the prognostic significance of lymph node number as a care quality indicatorYun Jau Chang
Department of General Surgery, Zhongxing Branch, Taipei City Hospital, Graduate Institute of Health Policy and Management, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University Hospital, No 17 Suchow Road, Taipei, Taiwan
Surg Oncol 21:e75-85. 2012..We aim to use propensity score models to investigate the association between lymph node number and long-term survival for colorectal cancer patients... 
Hospital quality information for patients in Taiwan: can they understand it?Shou Hsia Cheng
Institute of Health Policy and Management and Center for Health Policy Research, National Taiwan University, College of Public Health, Taipei
Int J Qual Health Care 14:155-60. 2002..To investigate Taiwanese patients' ability to judge hospital quality and to examine their knowledge of commonly used quality indicators...- Locoregional therapy-induced tumor necrosis as a predictor of recurrence after liver transplant in patients with hepatocellular carcinomaMeng Hsing Ho
Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Tri Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan
Ann Surg Oncol 18:3632-9. 2011..Our goal was to assess the risk factors for posttransplant tumor recurrence, specifically the extent of necrosis induced by locoregional therapy... - Application of the analytic hierarchy process in the performance measurement of colorectal cancer care for the design of a pay-for-performance program in TaiwanKuo Piao Chung
Graduate Institute of Health Policy and Management, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Int J Qual Health Care 25:81-91. 2013..To prioritize performance measures for colorectal cancer care to facilitate the implementation of a pay-for-performance (PFP) system... - Risk groups defined by Recursive Partitioning Analysis of patients with colorectal adenocarcinoma treated with colorectal resectionYun Jau Chang
Graduate Institute of Health Policy and Management, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
BMC Med Res Methodol 12:2. 2012..To define different prognostic groups of surgical colorectal adenocarcinoma patients derived from recursive partitioning analysis (RPA)... - The unintended consequence of diabetes mellitus pay-for-performance (P4P) program in Taiwan: are patients with more comorbidities or more severe conditions likely to be excluded from the P4P program?Tsung Tai Chen
Department of Healthcare Information and Management, Ming Chuan University and Center for Health Insurance Research, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University
Health Serv Res 46:47-60. 2011..Doctors are permitted to choose which of their DM patients are included in the P4P program. We test whether seriously ill DM patients are disproportionately excluded from the P4P program... - Effect of the pay-for-performance program for breast cancer care in TaiwanRaymond N C Kuo
Graduate Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Taipei City, Taiwan
Am J Manag Care 17:e203-11. 2011..To evaluate the impact of the nationwide pay-for-performance (P4P) program for breast cancer care (BC-P4P) in Taiwan on care quality, patient survival, and recurrence... - Statistical process control as a tool for controlling operating room performance: retrospective analysis and benchmarkingTsung Tai Chen
Institute of Health Care Organization Administration, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
J Eval Clin Pract 16:905-10. 2010..This study aimed to analyse the performance of surgeons in operating room (OR) and set a benchmark by SPC after stabilized process... - Using discrete choice experiment to elicit doctors' preferences for the report card design of diabetes care in Taiwan - a pilot studyTsung Tai Chen
Institute of Health Care Organization Administration, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
J Eval Clin Pract 16:14-20. 2010..The aim of this study was to investigate the Diabetes Mellitus (DM) providers' preferences towards four report card attributes: update frequency, risk adjustment, content information and display format... - Is it enough to set national patient safety goals? An empirical evaluation in TaiwanCathy Hui Ying Wung
Taiwan Joint Commission on Hospital Accreditation and Quality Improvement, Taipei, Taiwan
Int J Qual Health Care 23:420-8. 2011..To date, however, there has been no evaluation of these goals. This study aimed to develop a method to evaluate the status of the national patient safety goals in Taiwan... - Predictors for readmission of acute ischemic stroke in TaiwanHsuan Wei Li
Institute of Health Policy and Management, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
J Formos Med Assoc 110:627-33. 2011..This study examined the patterns of care received by patients with ischemic stroke, estimated stroke readmission rates, and identified predictors related to readmission in Taiwan... - The use of statistical process control (risk-adjusted CUSUM, risk-adjusted RSPRT and CRAM with prediction limits) for monitoring the outcomes of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients rescued by the EMS systemTsung Tai Chen
Center for Health Insurance Research, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
J Eval Clin Pract 17:71-7. 2011..Based on previous experience from surgical surveillance, risk-adjusted cumulative sum (CUSUM)-type charts were applied to monitor out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patient mortality... - Quality of care for lung cancer in Taiwan: a pattern of care based on core measures in the Taiwan Cancer Database registryChun Ru Chien
Division of Radiation Oncology, Department of Oncology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
J Formos Med Assoc 107:635-43. 2008..To investigate the quality of care (QOC) for lung cancer in Taiwan, as measured by pattern of care (POC) variation... - Career stress and female managers' health in Taiwan's hospitals: a multilevel model approachDuan Rung Chen
Graduate Institute of Health Care Organization Administration, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Health Care Manage Rev 33:40-50. 2008..In addition, adequately designed mentorship practices can greatly benefit female managers... - Comparing hepatic resection and transarterial chemoembolization for Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer (BCLC) stage B hepatocellular carcinoma: change for treatment of choice?Chin Ta Lin
Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Tri Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, No 325, Sec 2, Cheng Kung Road, Neihu 114, Taipei, Taiwan
World J Surg 34:2155-61. 2010..The present study compared the long-term outcome of hepatic resection with TACE in the treatment of BCLC stage B HCC... - Effect of the Pay-for-Performance Program for Breast Cancer Care in TaiwanRaymond N C Kuo
National Taiwan University Hospital and College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei City, Taiwan
J Oncol Pract 7:e8s-e15s. 2011..To evaluate the impact of the nationwide pay-for-performance (P4P) program for breast cancer care (BC-P4P) in Taiwan on care quality, patient survival, and recurrence...