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Quality improvement initiatives take many forms, from the creation of standards for healthprofessionals, health technologies and health facilities, to audit and feedback, and fromfostering a patient safety culture to public reporting and paying for quality. For policymakerswho struggle to decide which initiatives to prioritise for investment, understandingthe potential of different quality strategies in their unique settings is key. This volume, developed by the Observatory together with OECD, provides an overall conceptual framework for understanding and applying strategies aimed at improving quality of care. Crucially, it summarizes available evidence on different quality strategies and providesrecommendations for their implementation. This book is intended to help policy-makers tounderstand concepts of quality and to support them to evaluate single strategies andcombinations of strategies. Quality of care is a political priority and an important contributor to population health. Thisbook acknowledges that "quality of care" is a broadly defined concept, and that it is oftenunclear how quality improvement strategies fit within a health system, and what theirparticular contribution can be. This volume elucidates the concepts behind multiple elementsof quality in healthcare policy (including definitions of quality, its dimensions, related activities, and targets), quality measurement and governance and situates it all in the wider context ofhealth systems research. By so doing, this book is designed to help policy-makers prioritizeand align different quality initiatives and to achieve a comprehensive approach to qualityimprovement.

Outcome assessment (Medical care) --- Medical policy. --- Medical care --- Cost effectiveness. --- Standards.

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Quality improvement initiatives take many forms, from the creation of standards for healthprofessionals, health technologies and health facilities, to audit and feedback, and fromfostering a patient safety culture to public reporting and paying for quality. For policymakerswho struggle to decide which initiatives to prioritise for investment, understandingthe potential of different quality strategies in their unique settings is key. This volume, developed by the Observatory together with OECD, provides an overall conceptual framework for understanding and applying strategies aimed at improving quality of care. Crucially, it summarizes available evidence on different quality strategies and providesrecommendations for their implementation. This book is intended to help policy-makers tounderstand concepts of quality and to support them to evaluate single strategies andcombinations of strategies. Quality of care is a political priority and an important contributor to population health. Thisbook acknowledges that "quality of care" is a broadly defined concept, and that it is oftenunclear how quality improvement strategies fit within a health system, and what theirparticular contribution can be. This volume elucidates the concepts behind multiple elementsof quality in healthcare policy (including definitions of quality, its dimensions, related activities, and targets), quality measurement and governance and situates it all in the wider context ofhealth systems research. By so doing, this book is designed to help policy-makers prioritizeand align different quality initiatives and to achieve a comprehensive approach to qualityimprovement.

Outcome assessment (Medical care) --- Medical policy. --- Medical care --- Cost effectiveness. --- Standards.

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The Handbook of Health Services Research is a reference for all aspects of the field of health services and outcomes research. It addresses the increasing need for comprehensive, yet balanced, information in a field that welcomes various disciplines: medicine, public health, statistics, economics, management, policy, and information technology. This well-organized reference is an indispensable source of information for everyone who seeks to develop understanding of health systems and to learn about historical, political, and socioeconomic factors that influence health policies at the global, national, regional and local level. Specifically, the Handbook helps readers: Recognize core concepts of health services and outcomes research, such as, need, access, equity, quality and safety; Become familiar with social, political, organizational, behavioral and economic theories that have influenced health systems designs; Learn about frameworks developed for evaluating the organization, financing, delivery, utilization and outcomes of health services; Get an introduction to methods of comparative effectiveness research, program evaluation, health technology assessment and health economics; Identify types and sources of data appropriate for generating valid and reliable information about the delivery of health services; Learn about strengths and weaknesses of various research designs used to study health services and policy issues. The online version of the Handbook of Health Services Research is in the format of a dynamically updated knowledge base, offering search tools, cross-referencing across chapters and linking to supplement data, other major reference works and external articles. The Handbook of Health Services Research is accessible at the level of graduate students even if it is not their focus area. This includes students with various backgrounds: medicine, public health, statistics, economics, management or information technology.

Social policy --- Statistical science --- Hygiene. Public health. Protection --- volksgezondheid --- gezondheidszorg --- statistiek --- gezondheidsvoorzieningen --- welzijnsbeleid --- sociaal beleid

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The Handbook of Health Services Research is a reference for all aspects of the field of health services and outcomes research. It addresses the increasing need for comprehensive, yet balanced, information in a field that welcomes various disciplines: medicine, public health, statistics, economics, management, policy, and information technology. This well-organized reference is an indispensable source of information for everyone who seeks to develop understanding of health systems and to learn about historical, political, and socioeconomic factors that influence health policies at the global, national, regional and local level. Specifically, the Handbook helps readers: Recognize core concepts of health services and outcomes research, such as, need, access, equity, quality and safety; Become familiar with social, political, organizational, behavioral and economic theories that have influenced health systems designs; Learn about frameworks developed for evaluating the organization, financing, delivery, utilization and outcomes of health services; Get an introduction to methods of comparative effectiveness research, program evaluation, health technology assessment and health economics; Identify types and sources of data appropriate for generating valid and reliable information about the delivery of health services; Learn about strengths and weaknesses of various research designs used to study health services and policy issues. The online version of the Handbook of Health Services Research is in the format of a dynamically updated knowledge base, offering search tools, cross-referencing across chapters and linking to supplement data, other major reference works and external articles. The Handbook of Health Services Research is accessible at the level of graduate students even if it is not their focus area. This includes students with various backgrounds: medicine, public health, statistics, economics, management or information technology.

Health administration. --- Social policy. --- Statistics . --- Public health. --- Health Administration. --- Social Policy. --- Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences. --- Public Health.