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Mukamel, Dana B.; Ladd, Heather; Weimer, David L.; Spector, William D.; Zinn, Jacqueline S. – Gerontologist, 2009
Purpose: A national quality report card for nursing homes, Nursing Home Compare, has been published since 2002. It has been shown to have some, albeit limited, positive impact on quality of care. The objective of this study was to test empirically the hypothesis that nursing homes have responded to the publication of the report by adopting cream…
Descriptors: Ownership, Patients, Nursing Homes, Health Facilities
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MacDonald, Colla J.; Archibald, Douglas; Stodel, Emma; Chambers, Larry W.; Hall, Pippa – McGill Journal of Education, 2008
The Working Together (WT) project involved the design and delivery of an online learning resource for healthcare teams in long-term care (LTC) so that knowledge regarding interprofessional collaborative patient-centred practice (ICPCP) could be readily accessed and then transferred to the workplace. The purpose of this paper is to better…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Physicians, Nurses, Online Courses
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Bashook, P. G.; And Others – Journal of Medical Education, 1982
A model medical care evaluation (MCE) program was implemented at the Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center. The program was evaluated by quantitative and qualitative observational techniques, questionnaires, and interviews, and by comparing committees for which the implementation was highly successful with those less successful. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Case Records, Committees, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education
Donabedian, Avedis – 1978
In this paper the author assesses the state-of-the-art on quality assessment and monitoring of medical care and makes recommendations for needed research in this area. Following a brief introduction, the content is presented in two sections. The first, providing a frame of reference, covers definitions; quality assessment and program evaluation;…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Evaluation Criteria, Measurement Techniques, Medical Care Evaluation
Cordes, Sam M., Comp. – 1977
Summaries of 89 studies on rural health care (underway or recently completed) in the United States as of December 1976 are reported. Information on each study includes: title; principal researchers' names, addresses, and professions; major objectives of the research; methodology; findings (on completed research); financing organization; current…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Costs, Delivery Systems, Directories
Schaefer, Daniel E.; And Others – 1981
The Eastern Virginia Area Health Education Center (AHEC) Program provides the organization and funding for implementing substantial linkages among the Eastern Virginia Medical School, affiliated institutions, and health-care professions; and establishing a center in the adjacent geographic services areas. The Bureau of Health Manpower contract…
Descriptors: Educational Supply, Evaluation Methods, Graduate Medical Education, Graduate Medical Students