Announcing AHEAD: a new service from the University of Manitoba Health Sciences Libraries.
AHEAD is a bi-weekly email, designed for current and future healthcare decision-makers. AHEAD alerts you to new web resources, reports, articles and guidelines. Selected online resources cover topics like
leadership, quality improvement, administration and patient safety.
The following is the first AHEAD alert and attached is a poster to promote AHEAD.
If you would like to subscribe, go to
http://lists.umanitoba.ca/mailman/listinfo/umhsl-ahead, or contact MHIKNET at
mhiknet@umanitoba.ca or 1-877-789-3804.
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AHEAD
Alert for Healthcare Decision-Makers |
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UMHSL Resource: |
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Brand CM, Barker AL, Morello RT, et al. A Review of Hospital Characteristics
Associated With Improved Performance.
Int J Qual Health Care. 2012; 8(1):
483-494.
This review critically appraised 57 studies for associations between high-level structural and operational hospital characteristics and improved performance. Hospital characteristics that were investigated included environment (incentives,
market characteristics), structure (network membership, ownership, teaching status, geographical setting, service size), and operational design (leadership, organizational culture, reporting, patient safety practices, info technology systems, decision support,
staff training, etc).
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Forster AJ, Van Walraven C. The Use of Quality Indicators to Promote Accountability in Health Care: the Good,
the Bad and the Ugly. Open Med. 2012;
6(2): [7 pgs].
This Canadian commentary from the online, peer-reviewed, open-access journal titled Open Medicine, discusses health care performance measurement considerations around hospital standardized mortality ration, all-cause urgent readmissions
and ER department length of stay. Recommendations are given with regards to improving quality measurement. |
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AHEAD Alert, go to:
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University of Manitoba Health Sciences Libraries |
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Orvie Dingwall, BA, MLIS, AHIP
MHIKNET Librarian
Neil John Maclean Health Sciences Library
University of Manitoba
email:
orvie_dingwall@umanitoba.ca
phone: 204.977.5660
cell: 204.227.5749
website:
http://mhiknet.lib.umanitoba.ca/