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How to Use Quality Improvement Tools in Clinical Practice: A Primer for Nephrologists. 2016

Christopher T Chan, and Glenn M Chertow, and Gihad Nesrallah, and Chaim M Bell
Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D009398 Nephrology A subspecialty of internal medicine concerned with the anatomy, physiology, and pathology of the kidney.
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D014481 United States A country in NORTH AMERICA between CANADA and MEXICO.
D016896 Treatment Outcome Evaluation undertaken to assess the results or consequences of management and procedures used in combating disease in order to determine the efficacy, effectiveness, safety, and practicability of these interventions in individual cases or series. Rehabilitation Outcome,Treatment Effectiveness,Clinical Effectiveness,Clinical Efficacy,Patient-Relevant Outcome,Treatment Efficacy,Effectiveness, Clinical,Effectiveness, Treatment,Efficacy, Clinical,Efficacy, Treatment,Outcome, Patient-Relevant,Outcome, Rehabilitation,Outcome, Treatment,Outcomes, Patient-Relevant,Patient Relevant Outcome,Patient-Relevant Outcomes
D017064 Process Assessment, Health Care An evaluation procedure that focuses on how care is delivered, based on the premise that there are standards of performance for activities undertaken in delivering patient care, in which the specific actions taken, events occurring, and human interactions are compared with accepted standards. Process Assessment (Health Care),Assessment, Process,Process Measures,Assessment, Process (Health Care),Assessments, Process,Assessments, Process (Health Care),Measure, Process,Measures, Process,Process Assessment,Process Assessments,Process Assessments (Health Care),Process Measure
D058996 Quality Improvement The attainment or process of attaining a new level of performance or quality. Improvement, Quality,Improvements, Quality,Quality Improvements
D019033 Delivery of Health Care, Integrated A health care system which combines physicians, hospitals, and other medical services with a health plan to provide the complete spectrum of medical care for its customers. In a fully integrated system, the three key elements - physicians, hospital, and health plan membership - are in balance in terms of matching medical resources with the needs of purchasers and patients. (Coddington et al., Integrated Health Care: Reorganizing the Physician, Hospital and Health Plan Relationship, 1994, p7) Integrated Delivery Systems,Integrated Health Care Systems,Delivery System, Integrated,Delivery Systems, Integrated,Integrated Delivery System,System, Integrated Delivery,Systems, Integrated Delivery
D019984 Quality Indicators, Health Care Norms, criteria, standards, and other direct qualitative and quantitative measures used in determining the quality of health care. Global Trigger Tool, Healthcare,Health Metrics,Healthcare Global Trigger Tool,Quality Indicators, Healthcare,Health Metric,Healthcare Quality Indicator,Healthcare Quality Indicators,Indicator, Healthcare Quality,Indicators, Healthcare Quality,Metrics, Health,Quality Indicator, Healthcare

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