Quality Assurance, Health Care Concept

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• A Comprehensive and Practical Quality Assurance Program for Community Mental Health Services  Academic Article
• A Critical Appraisal of Review Articles on the Effectiveness of Conservative Treatment for Neck Pain  Academic Article
• A Cross-sectional Survey of Levels of Care and Response Mechanisms for Evolving Critical Illness in Hospitalized Children  Academic Article
• A Framework for Assessing Quality Indicators for Cancer Care at the End of Life  Academic Article
• A GRADE Working Group approach for rating the quality of treatment effect estimates from network meta-analysis  Academic Article
• A Long Time Coming: Primary Healthcare Renewal in Canada  Academic Article
• A Qualitative Assessment of a Provincial Quality Improvement Strategy for Pancreatic Cancer Surgery  Academic Article
• A Randomized Trial of Quality Assurance in Nursing Homes  Academic Article
• A Study To Identify Who Is the Responsible Physician for Each Patient in a Teaching Hospital  Academic Article
• A controlled evaluation of a national continuing medical education programme designed to improve family physicians' implementation of diabetes-specific clinical practice guidelines  Academic Article
• A controlled ‘before-after’ study: impact of a clinical guidelines programme and regional cancer network organization on medical practice  Academic Article
• A model for achieving total quality-management information technology infrastructure within an integrated delivery system  Academic Article
• A pilot study of stereotactic boost for malignant epidural spinal cord compression: clinical significance and initial dosimetric evaluation  Academic Article
• A review of national policies and strategies to improve quality of health care and patient safety: a case study from Lebanon and Jordan  Academic Article
• A systematic review of performance assessment tools for laparoscopic cholecystectomy  Academic Article
• AGREE II: Advancing guideline development, reporting and evaluation in health care  Academic Article
• Aiming for Zero Preventable Deaths: Using Death Review to Improve Care and Reduce Harm  Academic Article
• An Audit of the Effect of Two Cord-Care Regimens on Bacterial Colonization in Newborn Infants  Academic Article
• An Introduction to Evidence-Based Practice for Hand Surgeons and Therapists  Academic Article
• Antidepressant prescribing in community cancer care  Academic Article
• Appropriateness of Biologics in the Management of Crohn’s Disease Using RAND/UCLA Appropriateness Methodology  Academic Article
• Assessing evidence in public health: the added value of GRADE  Academic Article
• Assessing quality of newborn care at district facilities in Malawi  Academic Article
• Assessing the Reliability and Quality of Online Uterine Fibroid Embolization Resources  Academic Article
• Assessing the quality of reports of randomized trials in pediatric complementary and alternative medicine  Academic Article
• Assessing the transparency of informed consent in feasibility and pilot studies: a single-centre quality assurance study protocol  Academic Article
• Assessment of the quality and variability of health information on chronic pain websites using the DISCERN instrument  Academic Article
• Audit of community pharmacists’ prescribing interventions: Quality assessment of a newly reimbursed service  Academic Article
• Author’s specialty and conflicts of interest contribute to conflicting guidelines for screening mammography  Academic Article
• Back to Back: Adherence to evidence-based guidelines is the key to improved health outcomes for general practice patients: No  Academic Article
• Benchmarking quality rules  Academic Article
• Black Balls and Diagnostic Reasoning  Academic Article
• Bridging the Osteoporosis Quality Chasm  Academic Article
• Bringing two worlds closer together: a critical analysis of an integrated approach to guideline development and quality assurance schemes  Academic Article
• Can you use a sequential sample of patients as a substitute for a full practice audit?: Study of mammography screening rates in 20 family practices in Ontario.  Academic Article
• Canada's pathology  Academic Article
• Canadian Healthcare Perspective in Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitation  Academic Article
• Canadian Quality Circle pilot project in osteoporosis: rationale, methods, and feasibility.  Academic Article
• Cancer Care Ontario Colonoscopy Standards: Standards and Evidentiary Base  Academic Article
• Capitalizing on staff enthusiasm to improve the nursing process.  Academic Article
• Carotid Endarterectomy  Academic Article
• Clinical Interpretation Standards and Quality Assurance for the Multicenter PET/CT Trial Rubidium-ARMI  Academic Article
• Clinical Practice Guidelines: The Need for Improved Implementation Strategies  Academic Article
• Clinical Practice Guidelines: Tools to Support High Quality Patient Care  Academic Article
• Clinical practice guidelines: between science and art.  Academic Article
• Codesigning health and other public services with vulnerable and disadvantaged populations: Insights from an international collaboration  Academic Article
• Complementary medicine and older people: past research and future directions  Academic Article
• Computer-aided quality assurance. A critical appraisal  Academic Article
• Consensus statements, evidence-based medicine and guidelines in allergic diseases  Academic Article
• Continuing Medical Education: an international reality  Academic Article
• Creating clinical practice guidelines we can trust, use, and share: a new era is imminent  Academic Article
• Criteria Mapping: A Method of Quality Assurance  Academic Article
• Criteria-Based Resource Allocation  Academic Article
• Critical Appraisal of Research Evidence for Its Validity and Usefulness  Academic Article
• Critical care response teams: a step forward in patient care, or a step closer to an emergency physician manpower crisis?  Academic Article
• Critical care response teams: potential roles for emergency physicians  Academic Article
• Current experience with applying the GRADE approach to public health interventions: an empirical study  Academic Article
• Current status and future prospects  Academic Article
• Das GRADE-System  Academic Article
• Das GRADE-System: Ein Prolog zur Artikelserie in der ZEFQ  Academic Article
• Deep Vein Thrombosis Prophylaxis in Hospitalized Medical Patients: Current Recommendations, General Rates of Implementation, and Initiatives for Improvement  Academic Article
• Dental hygiene quality assurance: definitions, issues, and directions for Canada.  Academic Article
• Design, implementation and scaling up of the balanced scorecard for hospitals in Lebanon: Policy coherence and application lessons for low and middle income countries  Academic Article
• Developing an institute of medicine-aligned framework for categorizing primary care indicators for quality assessment.  Academic Article
• Developing and evaluating communication strategies to support informed decisions and practice based on evidence (DECIDE): protocol and preliminary results  Academic Article
• Developing clinical practice guidelines: target audiences, identifying topics for guidelines, guideline group composition and functioning and conflicts of interest  Academic Article
• Development and Aftercare of Clinical Guidelines  Academic Article
• Development and Validation of a Tool to Assess the Quality of Clinical Practice Guideline Recommendations  Academic Article
• Development of a Critical Care Triage Protocol for Pandemic Influenza: Integrating Ethics, Evidence and Effectiveness  Academic Article
• Development of a Tool to Measure Clinical Competence in Occupational Therapy: A Pilot Study?  Academic Article
• Development of a theoretical framework for assessment of quality of primary care medical service trips in Latin America  Academic Article
• Development of the AGREE II, part 2: assessment of validity of items and tools to support application  Academic Article
• Directly Improving the Quality of Radiation Treatment Through Peer Review: A Cross-sectional Analysis of Cancer Centers Across a Provincial Cancer Program  Academic Article
• Dying in the ICU: strategies that may improve end-of-life care  Academic Article
• Editorial  Academic Article
• Editorial: Two cheers for clinical practice guidelines: the hopes and headaches of quality improvement in reproductive healthcare  Academic Article
• Effectiveness of Computerized Decision Support Systems Linked to Electronic Health Records: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis  Academic Article
• Effects of Computer-based Clinical Decision Support Systems on Clinician Performance and Patient Outcome: A Critical Appraisal of Research  Academic Article
• Effects of Computerized Clinical Decision Support Systems on Practitioner Performance and Patient Outcomes  Academic Article
• End-of-life care for the critically ill: A national intensive care unit survey*  Academic Article
• Engaging Physician Leaders in Performance Measurement and Quality  Academic Article
• Enhancing the quality of antibiotic prescribing in Primary Care: Qualitative evaluation of a blended learning intervention  Academic Article
• Enregistrement et publication du critère d’évaluation principal dans les essais contrôlés randomisés en oncologie  Academic Article
• Establishing an Antimicrobial Stewardship Program  Academic Article
• Evaluating appropriate red blood cell transfusions: a quality audit at 10 Ontario hospitals to determine the optimal measure for assessing appropriateness  Academic Article
• Evaluating health systems strengthening interventions in low-income and middle-income countries: are we asking the right questions?  Academic Article
• Evaluating the effectiveness of 2 educational interventions in family practice.  Academic Article
• Evaluating the role of quality assessment of primary studies in systematic reviews of cancer practice guidelines  Academic Article
• Evaluationof theAlumni Program:A Shared-Care Model for Pschosis  Academic Article
• Evidence for the effectiveness of CME. A review of 50 randomized controlled trials  Academic Article
• Evidence-Based Guidelines—An Introduction  Academic Article
• Evidence-based care: 4. Improving performance: how can we improve the way we manage this problem? Evidence-Based Care Resource Group.  Academic Article
• Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for prostate cancer: the need for a unified approach  Academic Article
• Examining Primary Healthcare Performance through a Triple Aim Lens  Academic Article
• External Quality Assessment of Platelet Disorder Investigations: Results of International Surveys on Diagnostic Tests for Dense Granule Deficiency and Platelet Aggregometry Interpretation  Academic Article
• Features predicting the success of computerized decision support for prescribing: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials  Academic Article
• Feedback GAP: pragmatic, cluster-randomized trial of goal setting and action plans to increase the effectiveness of audit and feedback interventions in primary care  Academic Article
• Fetal-Maternal Hemorrhage Detection in Ontario  Academic Article
• Fit-For-Purpose PD-L1 Biomarker Testing For Patient Selection in Immuno-Oncology: Guidelines For Clinical Laboratories From the Canadian Association of Pathologists-Association Canadienne Des Pathologistes (CAP-ACP)  Academic Article
• Free-standing health care facilities: financial arrangements, quality assurance and a pilot study.  Academic Article
• From Boardroom to Bedside: How to Define and Measure Hospital Quality  Academic Article
• From Measurement to Improvement in Ontario’s Cancer System: Analyzing the Performance of 28 Provincial Indicators Over 15 years  Academic Article
• From eminence-based practice to evidence-based practice: a paradigm shift.  Academic Article
• GRADE Leitlinien: 13. Erstellen von Summary-of-Findings-Tabellen und Evidenzprofilen – kontinuierliche Endpunkte  Academic Article
• GRADE Leitlinien: 7. Einschätzung der Qualität der Evidenz – Inkonsistenz  Academic Article
• GRADE Leitlinien: 8. Einschätzung der Qualität der Evidenz – Indirektheit  Academic Article
• GRADE guidelines: 1. Introduction—GRADE evidence profiles and summary of findings tables  Academic Article
• GRADE guidelines: 10. Considering resource use and rating the quality of economic evidence  Academic Article
• GRADE guidelines: 12. Preparing Summary of Findings tables—binary outcomes  Academic Article
• GRADE guidelines: 15. Going from evidence to recommendation—determinants of a recommendation's direction and strength  Academic Article
• GRADE guidelines: 2. Framing the question and deciding on important outcomes  Academic Article
• GRADE guidelines: 3. Rating the quality of evidence  Academic Article
• GRADE guidelines: 4. Rating the quality of evidence—study limitations (risk of bias)  Academic Article
• GRADE guidelines: A new series of articles in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology  Academic Article
• GRADE system: new paradigm  Academic Article
• GRADE-Leitlinien: 1. Einführung – GRADE-Evidenzprofile und Summary-of-Findings-Tabellen  Academic Article
• GRADE-Leitlinien: 10. Den Ressourcenverbrauch berücksichtigen und die Qualität ökonomischer Evidenz bewerten  Academic Article
• GRADE-Leitlinien: 11. Gesamtbeurteilung des Vertrauens in Effektschätzer für einen einzelnen Studienendpunkt und für alle Endpunkte  Academic Article
• GRADE-Leitlinien: 12. Erstellen von „Summary-of-Findings“-Tabellen – Dichotome Endpunkte  Academic Article
• GRADE-Leitlinien: 2. Formulierung der Fragestellung und Entscheidung über wichtige Endpunkte  Academic Article
• GRADE-Leitlinien: 3. Bewertung der Qualität der Evidenz (Vertrauen in die Effektschätzer)  Academic Article
• GRADE-Leitlinien: 4. Bewertung der Qualität der Evidenz – Studienlimitationen (Risiko für Bias)  Academic Article
• GRADE: Von der Evidenz zur Empfehlung.  Academic Article
• Generating evidence on a risk-based monitoring approach in the academic setting – lessons learned  Academic Article
• Going from evidence to recommendations: Can GRADE get us there?  Academic Article
• Grading Strength of Recommendations and Quality of Evidence in Clinical Guidelines  Academic Article
• Grading quality of evidence and strength of recommendations  Academic Article
• Grading quality of evidence and strength of recommendations in clinical practice guidelines: Part 2 of 3. The GRADE approach to grading quality of evidence about diagnostic tests and strategies  Academic Article
• Grading quality of evidence and strength of recommendations in clinical practice guidelines: part 1 of 3. An overview of the GRADE approach and grading quality of evidence about interventions  Academic Article
• Guideline panels should not GRADE good practice statements  Academic Article
• Guideline-based quality assurance: a conceptual framework for the definition of key elements  Academic Article
• Guidelines for Reporting Reliability and Agreement Studies (GRRAS) were proposed  Academic Article
• Guidelines for medical technology in critical care. Technology Subcommittee of the Working Group on Critical Care, Ontario Ministry of Health.  Academic Article
• HIV prevalence amongst injecting drug users in Iran: A systematic review of studies conducted during the decade 1998–2007  Academic Article
• HOW ACCURATE IS A COMPUTERIZED SURGICAL AUDIT WHEN RESIDENT MEDICAL STAFF COLLECT THE DATA?  Academic Article
• Health-related quality-of-life data should be regarded as a vital sign  Academic Article
• Heart Failure Management in Nursing Homes: A Scoping Literature Review  Academic Article
• Hospital accreditation policy in Lebanon: its potential for quality improvement.  Academic Article
• Hospital on a Page: Standardizing Data Presentation to Drive Quality Improvement  Academic Article
• How do we know if a clinical practice guideline is good? A response to Djulbegovic and colleagues' use of fast-and-frugal decision trees to improve clinical care strategies  Academic Article
• Identifying Potentially Avoidable Hospital Admissions From Canadian Long-Term Care Facilities  Academic Article
• Identifying standards, meeting expectations: comparing regulatory standards and community health nursing practice standards.  Academic Article
• Impact of a computerized system for evidence-based diabetes care on completeness of records: a before–after study  Academic Article
• Impact of unified procedures as implemented in the Canadian Quality Assurance Program for T lymphocyte subset enumeration  Academic Article
• Implementation of an Interprofessional Team Review of Adverse Events in Obstetrics Using a Standardized Computer Tool: A Mixed Methods Study  Academic Article
• Implementation of the quality management system improves postoperative pain treatment: a prospectivepre-/post-interventional questionnaire study  Academic Article
• Implementing an Organization-Wide Quality Improvement Initiative  Academic Article
• Implications of adjustment of high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T assay  Academic Article
• Improving End-of-Life Communication and Decision Making: The Development of a Conceptual Framework and Quality Indicators  Academic Article
• Improving Medicare.  Academic Article
• Improving patient care and quality of life after laryngectomy/glossectomy  Academic Article
• Improving patients' safety locally: changing clinician behaviour  Academic Article
• Improving serological test ordering patterns for the diagnosis of celiac disease through clinical laboratory audit of practice  Academic Article
• Incorporating considerations of resources use into grading recommendations  Academic Article
• Increasing Influenza Immunization for Long-Term Care Facility Staff Using Quality Improvement  Academic Article
• Increasing Reliability of APACHE II Scores in a Medical-Surgical Intensive Care Unit: A Quality Improvement Study  Academic Article
• Indicators of Safety Compromise in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy  Academic Article
• Individualized electronic decision support and reminders to improve diabetes care in the community: COMPETE II randomized trial  Academic Article
• Influence of bone densitometry results on the treatment of osteoporosis.  Academic Article
• Integrating Clinical Quality Improvement Strategies with Nursing Research  Academic Article
• Integrating Patient Safety Standards Into the Accreditation Program  Academic Article
• Integrating quality and patient safety concepts in medical curricula. Baseline assessment in Lebanon.  Academic Article
• Integrative Beurteilung der Evidenz im Gesundheitswesen: das GRADE System  Academic Article
• Intensity of Therapy Services: What are the Considerations?  Academic Article
• Intensive care unit quality improvement: A “how-to” guide for the interdisciplinary team*  Academic Article
• Interlaboratory variation in heparin monitoring: Lessons from the Quality Management Program of Ontario coagulation surveys  Academic Article
• International Council for Standardization in Haematology (ICSH) Recommendations for Laboratory Measurement of Direct Oral Anticoagulants  Academic Article
• Interobserver Reliability of Classification Systems to Rate the Quality of Femoral Neck Fracture Reduction  Academic Article
• Intraoperative pathology consultation: error, cause and impact  Academic Article
• Introducing Knowledge Translation to Plastic Surgery  Academic Article
• Introduction of rapid response teams in Poland  Academic Article
• Inventory of Cancer Guidelines: a tool to advance the guideline enterprise and improve the uptake of evidence  Academic Article
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome Patients’ Ideal Expectations and Recent Experiences with Healthcare Providers: A National Survey  Academic Article
• Is There an Age Pattern in the Treatment of AMI? Evidence from Ontario  Academic Article
• Knowledge creation: synthesis, tools and products  Academic Article
• Knowledge translation research: A review and new concepts from a surgical case study  Academic Article
• Letter to the editor  Academic Article
• Looking for Rules in a World of Exceptions: reflections on evidence-based practice  Academic Article
• MOSFET detectors in quality assurance of tomotherapy treatments  Academic Article
• Making Decisions About Prognosis in Evidence-Based Practice  Academic Article
• Making Hospital Care Safer and Better: The Structure-Process Connection Leading to Adverse Events  Academic Article
• Management of type 2 diabetes using non‐insulin glucose‐lowering therapies: a critical appraisal of clinical practice guidelines with the AGREE II instrument  Academic Article
• Measurement of actions of care-providers in long-term care  Academic Article
• Measuring Residentsʼ Care Management Knowledge  Conference Paper
• Measuring patient outcomes: A primer  Academic Article
• Medicare’ Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program and Community Diversity in the United States: The Need to Account for Racial and Ethnic Segregation  Academic Article
• Meeting the Challenge of Assessing Clinical Competence of Occupational Therapists within a Program Management Environment  Academic Article
• Methodologic and Reporting Quality of Economic Evaluations in Hand and Wrist Surgery: A Systematic Review  Academic Article
• Methodological idiosyncracies, frameworks and challenges of non-pharmaceutical and non-technical treatment interventions  Academic Article
• Methodology for Guideline Development for the Seventh American College of Chest Physicians Conference on Antithrombotic and Thrombolytic Therapy  Academic Article
• Mortality of emergency abdominal surgery in high-, middle- and low-income countries  Academic Article
• Multicenter randomized controlled trial on Duration of Therapy for Thrombosis in Children and Young Adults (the Kids‐DOTT trial): pilot/feasibility phase findings  Academic Article
• Nursing Leaders' Accountability to Narrow the Safety Chasm: Insights and Implications from the Collective Evidence Base on Healthcare Safety  Academic Article
• Ontario, Canada: Using Networks to Integrate Palliative Care Province-Wide  Academic Article
• Ontario’s Primary Care Reforms Have Transformed The Local Care Landscape, But A Plan Is Needed For Ongoing Improvement  Academic Article
• Operating in Turbulent Times: How Ontario's Hospitals Are Meeting the Current Funding Crisis  Academic Article
• Opportunities for improvement on current nuclear cardiology practices and radiation exposure in Latin America: Findings from the 65-country IAEA Nuclear Cardiology Protocols cross-sectional Study (INCAPS)  Academic Article
• Optimal search filters for detecting quality improvement studies in Medline  Academic Article
• Optimizing care in osteoporosis: The Canadian quality circle project  Academic Article
• Outcome Instruments: Rationale for Their Use  Academic Article
• Outcome Measurement at a Ugandan Referral Hospital: Validation of the Mbarara Surgical Services Quality Assurance Database  Academic Article
• PHYSICIAN RESPONSE TO PAY-FOR-PERFORMANCE: EVIDENCE FROM A NATURAL EXPERIMENT  Academic Article
• Part 4: Systems of Care and Continuous Quality Improvement  Academic Article
• Patient reported outcomes: general principles of development and interpretability  Academic Article
• Patient reports of undesirable events during hospitalization  Academic Article
• Payer and provider collaborations that improve quality outcomes in oncology.  Academic Article
• Performance Improvement in the Long-Term–Care Setting Building on the Foundation of Infection Control  Academic Article
• Perhaps I Am One of the Lucky Ones  Academic Article
• Pilot Study of the Quality Initiative in Rectal Cancer Strategy  Academic Article
• Pneumatic Tube Delivery System for Blood Samples Reduces Turnaround Times Without Affecting Sample Quality  Academic Article
• Point-of-Care, Peer-Comparator Colonoscopy Practice Audit: The Canadian Association of Gastroenterology Quality Program – Endoscopy  Academic Article
• Practice-based collection of quality indicator data for a comprehensive quality assessment programme in Canadian family practices  Academic Article
• Preoperative Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump in Patients Undergoing Coronary Bypass Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis  Academic Article
• Prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia: Current practice in Canadian intensive care units  Academic Article
• Preventive care and barriers to effective prevention. How do family physicians see it?  Academic Article
• Primary Health Care in Canada: Systems in Motion  Academic Article
• Progress towards systems of quality measurement that capture the essence of good palliative care  Academic Article
• Project ALIVE: An Action-Research Exploration of EMR Value in Primary Care.  Academic Article
• Promoting long-term care quality assurance: strategies used in Europe and North America.  Academic Article
• Proposal of a New Adverse Event Classification by the Society of Interventional Radiology Standards of Practice Committee  Academic Article
• Psychiatric Networks: They Make Sense, But do They Work?  Academic Article
• Psychometric Properties of a Peer-Assessment Program to Assess Continuing Competence in Physical Therapy  Conference Paper
• Quality Indicators for Colonoscopy: The Road Forward  Academic Article
• Quality Initiative in Rectal Cancer Strategy: A Qualitative Study of Participating Surgeons  Academic Article
• Quality assurance as a foundational element for an integrated system of dementia care  Academic Article
• Quality assurance assessment of a specialized perinatal mental health clinic  Academic Article
• Quality improvement in radiography in a neonatal intensive care unit.  Academic Article
• Quality improvement in surgical oncology – Measuring and improving clinical outcomes  Academic Article
• Quality of Randomized Controlled Trials Reporting in the Primary Treatment of Brain Tumors  Academic Article
• Quality of care: 1. What is quality and how can it be measured? Health Services Research Group.  Academic Article
• Quality of care: 2. Quality of care studies and their consequences. Health Services Research Group.  Academic Article
• Quality of diagnosis and surgical management of breast lesions in a community hospital: room for improvement?  Academic Article
• Quality of professional society guidelines and consensus conference statements in critical care*  Academic Article
• Quality of reporting of surveys in critical care journals  Conference Paper
• Quality-based procedures in Ontario: exploring health-care leaders' responses  Academic Article
• Radiation Dose in Interventional Cardiology Procedures: Urgent Need for Monitoring Dose and Establishing Diagnostic Reference Levels  Academic Article
• Randomized controlled trials and neuro-oncology: should alternative designs be considered?  Academic Article
• Reader disputes WMTS data.  Academic Article
• Reasons and Outcomes for Long-Term Care Transfers to the Hospital: A Retrospective Review  Academic Article
• Reconcilable Differences: The Marriage of Qualitative and Quantitative Methods  Academic Article
• Refinement of indicators and criteria in a quality tool for assessing quality in primary care in Canada: a Delphi Panel study  Academic Article
• Reinventing Radiology in a Digital and Molecular Age: Summary of Proceedings of the Sixth Biannual Symposium of the International Society for Strategic Studies in Radiology (ISR), August 25–27, 2005  Academic Article
• Relations between Immigrant Care Workers and Older Persons in Home and Long-Term Care  Academic Article
• Reliability and validity of the AGREE instrument used by physical therapists in assessment of clinical practice guidelines  Academic Article
• Resting state fMRI scanner instabilities revealed by longitudinal phantom scans in a multi-center study  Academic Article
• Results of a province-wide quality assurance program assessing the accuracy of cholesterol, triglycerides, and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol measurements and calculated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol in Ontario, using fresh human serum.  Academic Article
• Results of an External Proficiency Testing Exercise on Platelet Dense-Granule Deficiency Testing by Whole Mount Electron Microscopy  Academic Article
• Safety Implications of Standardized Continuous Quality Improvement Programs in Community Pharmacy  Academic Article
• Scales to Assess the Quality of Randomized Controlled Trials: A Systematic Review  Conference Paper
• Should technologists perform barium enemas?  Academic Article
• Special contribution.  Academic Article
• Stage III Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer: Establishing a Benchmark for the Proportion of Patients Suitable for Radical Treatment  Academic Article
• Stakeholder Engagement to Identify Priorities for Improving the Quality and Value of Critical Care  Academic Article
• Stakeholder Involvement: How to Do It Right  Academic Article
• State of reporting of primary biomedical research: a scoping review protocol  Academic Article
• Streamlining Regulatory Activities Within Radiation Therapy Departments Using QATrack+  Academic Article
• Substantial between-hospital variation in outcome following first emergency admission for heart failure  Academic Article
• Survivor focus groups: a quality assurance technique  Academic Article
• Synthesis, grading, and presentation of evidence in guidelines: article 7 in Integrating and coordinating efforts in COPD guideline development. An official ATS/ERS workshop report  Academic Article
• Systems for grading the quality of evidence and the strength of recommendations II: Pilot study of a new system  Academic Article
• Teaching Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine: 3. Asking the Questions and Identifying the Information  Academic Article
• Teaching Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine: 4. Appraising the Evidence for Papers on Therapy  Academic Article
• Teaching Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine: 5. Interpreting the Results of a Study on Therapy and Applying Them to a Patient  Academic Article
• Ten Years of Inaction on Antimicrobial Resistance: An Environmental Scan of Policies in Canada from 2008 to 2018  Academic Article
• Testing Quality Improvement Interventions  Academic Article
• The 2010 Canadian Cardiovascular Society guidelines for the diagnosis and management of heart failure update: Heart failure in ethnic minority populations, heart failure and pregnancy, disease management, and quality improvement/assurance programs  Academic Article
• The Canadian Heart Health Strategy and Action Plan: Cardiac rehabilitation as an exemplar of chronic disease management  Academic Article
• The Care of Preterm Infants With Birth Weight Below 1250 g  Academic Article
• The Connecting South West Ontario (cSWO) Benefits Model: An Approach for the Collaborative Capture of Value of Electronic Health Records and Enabling Technology.  Academic Article
• The Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) Statement applied to allergen-specific immunotherapy with inhalant allergens: A Global Allergy and Asthma European Network (GA2LEN) article  Academic Article
• The German method for setting ceiling prices for drugs: in some cases less data are required  Academic Article
• The Health Utilities Index (HUI): concepts, measurement properties and applications.  Academic Article
• The Kola Birth Registry and perinatal mortality in Mončegorsk, Russia  Academic Article
• The Newcastle Satisfaction with Nursing Scales: a valid measure of maternal satisfaction with inpatient postpartum nursing care  Academic Article
• The Norwegian naturalistic treatment study of depression in general practice (NORDEP)---I: randomised double blind study  Academic Article
• The Physician Quality Improvement Initiative: Engaging Physicians in Quality Improvement, Patient Safety, Accountability and their Provision of High-Quality Patient Care  Academic Article
• The Reporting of Clinical Acupuncture Research: What Do Clinicians Need to Know?  Academic Article
• The case for quality improvement in emergency medicine  Academic Article
• The current state of patient safety culture in Lebanese hospitals: a study at baseline  Academic Article
• The development of an Assessment and Intervention Falls Guide for older hospitalized adults with cardiac conditions  Academic Article
• The effect of continuous subcutaneous glucose monitoring (CGMS) versus intermittent whole blood finger-stick glucose monitoring (SBGM) on hemoglobin A1c (HBA1c) levels in Type I diabetic patients: A systematic review  Academic Article
• The most suitable person to establish quality assurance guidelines for the generation and use of noncommercial clinical software is a medical physicist  Academic Article
• The quality of clinical practice guidelines in hand therapy  Academic Article
• The quality of clinical practice guidelines over the last two decades: a systematic review of guideline appraisal studies  Academic Article
• The quality of information about sickle cell disease on the Internet for youth  Academic Article
• The “problem(s)” with quality improvement in health care  Academic Article
• Time to talk? Patient experiences of waiting for clinical management of knee injuries  Academic Article
• Total quality culture in radiotherapy departments across Ontario  Academic Article
• Toward integrated medical resource policies for Canada: 11. Improving effectiveness and efficiency.  Academic Article
• Transfusion Safety: The Nature and Outcomes of Errors in Patient Registration  Academic Article
• Tubal Sterilization in Women Under 30: Case Series and Ethical Implications  Academic Article
• Twenty Years Later: Do We Have an Agreed-Upon Definition of Health Quality Management?  Academic Article
• Use of epoetin in patients with cancer: evidence-based clinical practice guidelines of the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the American Society of Hematology  Academic Article
• Users' guide to the surgical literature. Self-audit and practice appraisal for surgeons.  Academic Article
• Using a Quality Improvement Process to Create Measurable Improvement in Care Delivery for Acute Stroke  Academic Article
• Using the Grade Approach to Support the Development of Recommendations for Public Health Interventions in Radiation Emergencies  Conference Paper
• Uterovaginal anomalies: diagnosis and current management in teens.  Academic Article
• Validation of an Electronic Surgical Outcomes Database at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital, Uganda  Academic Article
• What Is the Evidence for Parenting Interventions Offered in a Canadian Community?  Academic Article
• What factors influence primary care physicians' charges for their services? An exploratory study using standardized patients.  Academic Article
• What is “quality of evidence” and why is it important to clinicians?  Academic Article
• What makes a good ICU?  Academic Article
• Who cares what care?: An inverse interest law?  Academic Article
• Why is improving pain care so hard?  Academic Article
• Women's Suggestions for Improving Midwifery Care in The Netherlands  Academic Article
• [Concept for assessment and evaluation of quality in ambulatory nursing services].  Academic Article
• [International comparison of 19 clinical guideline programs--a survey of the AGREE Collaboration].  Academic Article
• [Polish guidelines for the prevention and treatment of venous thromboembolism: 2009 update].  Academic Article
• ‘Airplanes are flying nursing homes’: geographies in the concepts and locales of gerontological nursing practice  Academic Article
• ‘Background to clinical guidelines in cancer’: SOR, a programmatic approach to guideline development and aftercare  Academic Article
• “Flying by the Seat of Our Pants”: Current Processes to Share Best Practices to Deal With Elder Abuse  Academic Article