Introduction of a quality improvement program in a children's hospital in Tehran: design, implementation, evaluation and lessons learned

Mohammadi, S. Mehrdad; Hedges, Jerris R.; Zohrabi, Morteza; Ameli, Omid

doi:10.1093/intqhc/mzm021

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“…Healthcare quality improvement (QI) initiatives are The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0952-6862.htm Developing a hospital QI in Lesotho 15 increasingly used in resource-limited settings as a preferred method to improve quality and, in turn, improve health service delivery (Bradley and Igras, 2005;Mohammadi et al, 2007;Abdallah et al, 2002;Barker and McCannon, 2006;Catsambas et al, 2008). However, the literature on QI programming in sub-Saharan Africa, where the global disease burden is highest, is still limited (Liu et al, 2010).…”

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Developing a hospital quality improvement initiative in Lesotho

Berman

Nkabane²,

Malope³

et al. 2014

International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance

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The design and early implementation of QI programs should focus on easily achievable, locally-relevant improvement projects. It was found that early successes helped to fuel further QI gains and the authors believe that the work building sustainable QI skill sets within hospital staff could be useful in the future when attempting to tackle larger national-level quality of care indicators. The findings add to the existing evidence suggesting that an increased use of locally-relevant quality improvement programming could help strengthen health care systems in low resource settings.

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Developing a hospital quality improvement initiative in Lesotho

Berman

Nkabane²,

Malope³

et al. 2014

International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance

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“…Although management has been recognized as fundamental to health worker performance and motivation, [14][15][16] peer-reviewed studies on management, including quality improvement efforts, in global health are limited in their size, scope, and rigor. About 2 dozen studies [21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37] including a literature review 38 have examined the link between management and health system performance in low-and middle-income settings in the last 20 years. These studies are largely uniform in their findings, demonstrating that interventions to build management capacity in facilities and district health teams can influence performance.…”

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Management Matters: A Leverage Point for Health Systems Strengthening in Global Health

Bradley

Taylor

Cuellar

2015

Int J Health Policy Manag

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Despite a renewed focus in the field of global health on strengthening health systems, inadequate attention has been directed to a key ingredient of high-performing health systems: management. We aimed to develop the argument that management -defined here as the process of achieving predetermined objectives through human, financial, and technical resources -is a cross-cutting function necessary for success in all World Health Organization (WHO) building blocks of health systems strengthening. Management within health systems is particularly critical in low-income settings where the efficient use of scarce resources is paramount to attaining health goals. More generally, investments in management capacity may be viewed as a key leverage point in grand strategy, as strong management enables the achievement of large ends with limited means. We also sought to delineate a set of core competencies and identify key roles to be targeted for management capacity building efforts. Several effective examples of management interventions have been described in the research literature. Together, the existing evidence underscores the importance of country ownership of management capacity building efforts, which often challenge the status quo and thus need country leadership to sustain despite inevitable friction. The literature also recognizes that management capacity efforts, as a key ingredient of effective systems change, take time to embed, as new protocols and ways of working become habitual and integrated as standard operating procedures. Despite these challenges, the field of health management as part of global health system strengthening efforts holds promise as a fundamental leverage point for achieving health system performance goals with existing human, technical, and financial resources. The evidence base consistently supports the role of management in performance improvement but would benefit from additional research with improved methodological rigor and longer-time horizon investigations. Meanwhile, greater emphasis on management as a critical element of global health efforts may open new and sustainable avenues for advancing health systems performance.

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“…Documents that search engines offer are listed as results according to relevant value of query search with descent sequence. Hence, document offered as the first record in the search results, is the most related document to query search, from vision of that search engine (3). With regard to what was mentioned above and what cited to Tober’s study, sample research selected 10 first results of retrieval documents of each search engines.…”

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“…Web, a huge resource of data plays an important role as an information reference for scholars. Nowadays, the rate of network data growth caused inaccessibility of information that is more worse than lacking them (3). With the creation and development of internet network as the greatest, the most varied and the most widespread information resource, simultaneous and various types of search tools are appeared to help users find information they want, these tools include search engines, meta-search engines and subject directories (4).…”

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Comparison of Four Search Engines and their efficacy With Emphasis on Literature Research in Addiction (Prevention and Treatment)

Samadzadeh

Rigi

Ganjali

2013

Int J High Risk Behav Addict

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BackgroundSurveying valuable and most recent information from internet, has become vital for researchers and scholars, because every day, thousands and perhaps millions of scientific works are brought out as digital resources which represented by internet and researchers can’t ignore this great resource to find related documents for their literature search, which may not be found in any library. With regard to variety of documents presented on the internet, search engines are one of the most effective search tools for finding information.ObjectivesThe aim of this study is to evaluate the three criteria, recall, preciseness and importance of the four search engines which are PubMed, Science Direct, Google Scholar and federated search of Iranian National Medical Digital Library in addiction (prevention and treatment) to select the most effective search engine for offering the best literature research.Materials and MethodsThis research was a cross-sectional study by which four popular search engines in medical sciences were evaluated. To select keywords, medical subject heading (Mesh) was used. We entered given keywords in the search engines and after searching, 10 first entries were evaluated. Direct observation was used as a mean for data collection and they were analyzed by descriptive statistics (number, percent number and mean) and inferential statistics, One way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and post hoc Tukey in Spss. 15 statistical software. P Value < 0.05 was considered statistically significant.ResultsResults have shown that the search engines had different operations with regard to the evaluated criteria. Since P Value was 0.004 < 0.05 for preciseness and was 0.002 < 0.05 for importance, it shows significant difference among search engines. PubMed, Science Direct and Google Scholar were the best in recall, preciseness and importance respectively.ConclusionsAs literature research is one of the most important stages of research, it's better for researchers, especially Substance-Related Disorders scholars to use different search engines with the best recall, preciseness and importance in that subject field to reach desirable results while searching and they don’t depend on just one search engine.

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Introduction of a quality improvement program in a children's hospital in Tehran: design, implementation, evaluation and lessons learned

Cited by 20 publications

References 21 publications

Developing a hospital quality improvement initiative in Lesotho

Developing a hospital quality improvement initiative in Lesotho

Management Matters: A Leverage Point for Health Systems Strengthening in Global Health

Comparison of Four Search Engines and their efficacy With Emphasis on Literature Research in Addiction (Prevention and Treatment)

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