So, in 1983, Dr. Berwick was appointed vice president of quality-of-care measurement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Profiles in Retirement] Reference

Study finds limitations in publicly reported quality-of-care indicators for heart-failure patients.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trading in the year.] Reference

When health facilities ignore the quality-of-care concerns of nurses, whether involving nurse-patient staffing ratios or infection control practices, people die or get ill needlessly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Art Levine: Listen to the Nurses: Up to 40% of Hospitals Not Ready for Swine Flu] Reference

A major focus of the transformation was the tracking of a number of performance indicators—including quality-of-care measures—and holding senior managers accountable for improvements in those measures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Director's Blog » Blog Archive » Quality Initiatives Undertaken by the Veterans Health Administration] Reference

Primary outcomes were measured using quality-of-care guidelines from the IOM.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

Following that guideline is becoming a quality-of-care measure in many organizations.    From Wordnik.com.  [ajc.com - News] Reference

As a result, the researchers caution that quality-of-care rankings -- accessible through.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reuters: Top News] Reference

The termination, which affects about 12,000 beneficiaries, is the first CMS has made for quality-of-care reasons.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The society's seal designates a center that meets and exceeds quality-of-care measures in acute cardiac medicine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greensboro Business News - Local Greensboro News | The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area] Reference

Physicians argue that quality-of-care outcomes based on administrative databases don't provide subtle enough data to be of value.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science Blog - Science news straight from the source] Reference

A quality-of-care review by an outside agency faulted the Orange City hospital for the unsupervised transfer of a suicidal patient.    From Wordnik.com.  [DesMoinesRegister.com - NEWS] Reference

Republicans were trying to convince physicians to accept quality-of-care data reporting in exchange for reducing or eliminating their pay cut.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

According to state officials, Etter threatened to fire seven employees of the home if they reported quality-of-care concerns to state inspectors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Photos - DesMoinesRegister.com] Reference

A nursing home official who allegedly threatened to fire any colleagues who reported quality-of-care concerns to state inspectors now faces criminal charges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Photos - DesMoinesRegister.com] Reference

While the new local legislation would affect abortions, it would affect other procedures as well. “It really is a quality-of-care issue, †he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Indiana Law Blog] Reference

King said he's uncomfortable with the prospect of moving the residents into adult group homes, which he said have a troubled history over quality-of-care issues.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yakima Herald-Republic Weekly News] Reference

The Approvals Program, a component of the CoC, sets quality-of-care standards for cancer programs and reviews the programs to ensure they conform to those standards.    From Wordnik.com.  [battlecreekenquirer.com -] Reference

A worker at a Coralville nursing home who allegedly threatened to fire any colleagues who reported quality-of-care concerns to state inspectors faces criminal charges.    From Wordnik.com.  [press-citizen.com - SPORTS] Reference

Of those, 23 are comprehensive EHR packages and the rest are modular software products offering specific functionality, such as quality-of-care reporting and e-prescribing.    From Wordnik.com.  [InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs]

The authors looked at information on 11 quality measures from 383 health plans that reported quality-of-care data to the National Committee for Quality Assurance for 2002 and 2003.    From Wordnik.com.  [aids-write.org] Reference

The executive committee has responsibility for staff credentialing, peer review or doctor-on-doctor evaluations of fellow physicians and quality-of-care issues, among other duties.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Force, a sub-group of the Alliance's membership of more than 40 consumer, medical, government, labor, business, insurance and quality-of-care organizations, includes the following groups.    From Wordnik.com.  [RedOrbit News - Technology] Reference

He is internationally recognized for his work in outcomes management, medical staff development and quality-of-care improvement, Louisville-based Humana (NYSE: HUM) said in a news release.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dallas Business News - Local Dallas News | Dallas Business Journal] Reference

One of the lowest-cost markets in the country is Grand Junction, Colorado, a community of a hundred and twenty thousand that nonetheless has achieved some of Medicare's highest quality-of-care scores.    From Wordnik.com.  [Across the Great Divide] Reference

Mayo lobbied hard against a government insurance plan known as the public option, and in favor of quality-of-care incentives for doctors and hospitals that are modeled after the clinic's own practices.    From Wordnik.com.  [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference

Three Windsor-area hospitals have been at the centre of a provincial special investigation into questionable pathology reports and quality-of-care issues after two women received mistaken mastectomies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thestar.com - Home Page] Reference

Dr. Nash is internationally recognized for his work in outcomes management, medical staff development and quality-of-care improvement; his publications have appeared in more than 100 articles in major journals.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference

"There's a legitimate discussion to be had about the smartest way to pay them," said Nichols, who advocates forcing providers to bid for seniors 'business and paying them bonuses for achieving quality-of-care goals.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Swamp] Reference

Results Compared with hospitals in the lowest-cost quartile for CHF care, hospitals in the highest-cost quartile had higher quality-of-care scores (89. 9% vs 85. 5%) and lower mortality pneumonia, the converse was true.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archives of Internal Medicine current issue] Reference

The application "vastly improves the quality-of-care data abstraction and administrative processes related to reporting quality core measures to the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services," according to the release.    From Wordnik.com.  [Los Angeles Business News - Local Los Angeles News | Los Angeles Business from bizjournals] Reference

A Des Moines Register review of 81 bonus payment programs in 36 states shows that some homes are collecting quality-of-care bonuses approved by the same federal agency that considers them to be below-average caregivers.    From Wordnik.com.  [DesMoinesRegister.com - NEWS] Reference

MetaVision provides Clinical Decision Support, Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) for medications, and quality-of-care reporting.    From Wordnik.com.  [NewsBlaze.com Current News - Top Stories] Reference

Adds Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center pulmonologist Peter Bach: "He's one of the most prominent quality-of-care researchers in the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Most Powerful Doctor You Never Heard Of] Reference

To explain, President Barack Obama used diabetes treatment as a quality-of-care example in a recent speech, but he didn’t explain how quality would be measured.    From Wordnik.com.  [Treat the Disease, Not the Symptoms] Reference

"Understanding how the quality-of-care process was not implemented, not followed through.    From Wordnik.com.  [San Antonio News] Reference