Humans of Safe Care, Saving Lives
This is part of a series of profiles of the dedicated individuals behind the Safe Care, Saving Lives project. Safe Care, Saving Lives is a quality improvement project to improve neonatal care in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. “I was born in a …
Best Practices Booklet Launch Event at King George Hospital in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh
This blog is coauthored by Sujata Rao, Gayatri Emani, Santhosh Kraleti, and Vikrant Prabhakar of ACCESS Health India. They write about how the King George Hospital Quality Improvement team came together to drive success through quality improvement. King George Hospital is part …
Sixty Seconds to Survival: A Quality Improvement Success Story
This blog is coauthored by Sujata Rao and Vikrant Prabhakar of ACCESS Health India. They write about how the Nalgonda District Hospital demonstrates success through quality improvement. The Nalgonda District Hospital is part of the Safe Care, Saving Lives program. Nalgonda District …
Managing Markets for Health: Products and Providers
With expectations flying high among the participants, we moved into the second and third days of the Managing Markets for Health course. …
Case Study: The Mobile Emergency Team for the Elderly in Uppsala
This case study profiles the Mobile Emergency Team for the Elderly in Uppsala, Sweden. The Mobile Team offers urgent care in the home to people over the age of sixty five. This case study explains how teams of two physicians and two …
In Case You Missed It: New and Noteworthy This Week
This weekly blog series is a roundup of recent news items and developments that I found interesting and would like to share. …
Use of Standardized Patients to Assess Quality of Tuberculosis Care: A Pilot, Cross Sectional Study
Existing studies of the quality of tuberculosis care have relied on recall-based patient surveys, questionnaire surveys of knowledge, and prescription or medical record analysis, and the results mostly show the health-care provider’s knowledge rather than actual practice. No study has used standardized …
Use of Standardized Patients to Assess Quality of Tuberculosis Care: A Pilot, Cross Sectional Study
Existing studies of the quality of tuberculosis care have relied on recall-based patient surveys, questionnaire surveys of knowledge, and prescription or medical record analysis, and the results mostly show the health-care provider’s knowledge rather than actual practice. No study has used standardized …
International Profiles Of Health Care Systems 2014, Singapore Chapter
This publication presents overviews of the health care systems of Australia, Canada, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States. Each overview covers health insurance, public and private financing, health system organization …
Opportunities for Investment in Health and Wellness
There is a growing need for healthcare products and services worldwide. The world population is projected to increase by at least another two to three billion by the end of the century. All will seek access to high quality, affordable healthcare. Incomes …
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