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  2. Quality and Outcomes Framework - Wikipedia

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    It was intended to improve the quality of general practice and was part of an effort to solve a shortage of GPs. The QOF rewards GPs for implementing "good practice" in their surgeries. Participation in the QOF is voluntary for each partnership, but for most GPs, under the present contract, the QOF is almost the only area where they can make a ...

  3. Donabedian model - Wikipedia

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    The outcomes to evaluate the efficacy of this quality improvement (QI) solution might include patient satisfaction, timeliness of diagnosis, or clinical outcomes. [ 8 ] In addition to examining quality within a healthcare delivery unit, the Donabedian model is applicable to the structure and process for treating certain diseases and conditions ...

  4. Quality function deployment - Wikipedia

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    A house of quality for enterprise product development processes. The house of quality, a part of QFD, [3] is the basic design tool of quality function deployment. [4] It identifies and classifies customer desires (WHATs), identifies the importance of those desires, identifies engineering characteristics which may be relevant to those desires (HOWs), correlates the two, allows for verification ...

  5. Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award - Wikipedia

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    The Baldrige Excellence Framework has three parts: the Criteria for Performance Excellence, core values and concepts, and scoring guidelines. The framework serves two main purposes: (1) to help organizations assess their improvement efforts, diagnose their overall performance management system, and identify their strengths and opportunities for improvement and (2) to identify Baldrige Award ...

  6. Patient-reported outcome - Wikipedia

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    Patient-reported outcomes are important in a regulatory context. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued formal Guidance to Industry on PROs in label claims [24] and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has produced a reflection paper on HRQoL. [25] Increasing numbers of regulatory submissions for new drugs provide PRO data to ...

  7. GQM - Wikipedia

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    2. Operational level (Question) A set of questions is used to define models of the object of study and then focuses on that object to characterize the assessment or achievement of a specific goal. 3. Quantitative level (Metric) [8] A set of metrics, based on the models, is associated with every question in order to answer it in a measurable way.

  8. Outcomes theory - Wikipedia

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    Williams and Hummelbrunner (2009) summarize some of the uses of outcomes theory: "Outcomes theory intends to improve outcomes system architecture, that is, related systems that deal in one way or another with outcomes, by providing a clear common technical language, thus helping to avoid unnecessary duplication and identify gaps to be filled.

  9. Total quality management - Wikipedia

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    "Top management has direct responsibility for quality improvement." "Increased quality comes from systematic analysis and improvement of work processes." "Quality improvement is a continuous effort and conducted throughout the organization." The Navy used the following tools and techniques: The PDCA cycle to drive issues to resolution