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This study compares doctors’ and patients’ assessments of the severity of postoperative complications reported by patients. Within the context of quality assurance and patient safety, the study aims to contribute to developing instruments to include patients’ views for measuring postoperative complications.In a questionnaire development study 474 patients who had undergone different kinds of surgery...
The value and usefulness of the results of indicator-based performance measurement in healthcare for different purposes do not only depend on the methodological quality of the individual indicators but also on the composition of the indicator sets. So far, the balance of the currently used indicator sets of the German mandatory national performance measurement system for hospitals has not been systematically...
In healthcare, the processes, criteria, and evidence that decision makers use to reach their judgments often remain unclear. Decision makers sometimes neglect important criteria, give undue weight to criteria, or do not use the best available evidence to inform their judgments. Thus, the GRADE (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation) working group developed a system to support...
Research on the implementation of patient decision aids to facilitate shared decision making in clinical settings has steadily increased across Western countries. A study which implements decision aids and measures their impact on shared decision making has yet to be conducted in the Eastern part of Europe.To study the use of Option GridTM patient decision aids in a sample of Grupa LUX MED clinics...
Collaborative Care programs like the Improving Mood Promoting Access to Collaborative Care Program (IMPACT) present an opportunity to support primary care for elderly depressed patients. The GermanIMPACT study evaluates whether this low-threshold model using short behavioral interventions that are conducted by care managers and supervised by a psychotherapist/psychiatrist, is as effective as in other...
Caregiving often is a demanding task for family caregivers of people with dementia. In order to provide relief for caregivers and stabilize informal care, care and relief services for people with dementia and their caregivers were established by the German long-term care insurance (“Pflegeversicherung”). It is unknown how many people with dementia have used the additional care and relief services...
Leadership in social services and healthcare organizations is marked by high levels of complexity and contradiction, which cannot be fully explained by politically, economically, and socially induced changes. Rather, it is the particularities of service provision in healthcare and social services that confront executives with specific demands.This study aimed to capture and prioritize required leadership...
The study deals with the efficiency and possible improvements of quality promotion with quality indicators (QI). The goal is to investigate the practical use of feedback from QI surveys in the field of oncology office practices. It captures both the acceptance of results and the independent initiation of search- and improvement strategies. The value of best practice examples is of further interest...
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