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Health Care Improvement: Information Resources
in Support of Best Practice Outcomes


  Bibliography   Bibliographic Databases
       
  Web sites   Other Resources

Please send any comments concerning this page to Tom Mead.

Web Sites

American Academy of Family Physicians QI Modules (Health Care Quality Improvement)
http://www.aafp.org/quality/module/

AAFP Quality Clearinghouse / Publications
http://www.aafp.org/quality/publish2.html

How's Your Health (Dartmouth College; Family Practice COOP; FNX Corp)
http://www.howsyourhealth.com/

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
http://www.ahcpr.gov/

Quality of Care - RAND Health Bibliography
http://www.rand.org/organization/health/qcare.html

Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)
http://www.ihi.org/

      IHI - Eye on Improvement Newsletter
     http://www.ihi.org/resources/eyeoi/

      IHI - Breakthough Series Guides
     http://www.ihi.org/resources/btsguides/

      IHI - 1999 Handouts
     http://www.ihi.org/conferences/natforum/handouts.asp

Healthcare Quality and Management Sites
http://www.smi.stanford.edu/people/advani/healthcare-info.htm

Clinical Accountability, Service Planning and Evaluation (CASPE)
http://www.caspe.co.uk/papers_etc.htm

Comprehensive Health Enhancement Support System (CHESS) publications
http://chess.chsra.wisc.edu/Chess/

Community-Based Quality Improvement Education for the Health Professions
http://familymed.musc.edu/CI/home.html

American Society for Quality
http://www.asq.org/

Bibliographic Databases and Specific Search Strategies

HealthStar
Index and abstracts of national and international publications in health care planning, organization, financing, management, manpower, and related subjects.

MEDLINE
Online index produced by the National Library of Medicine. It corresponds to three printed indexes (Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing Index) that cover national and international medical literature on all aspects of biomedicine.

After performing a MEDLINE search in Ovid, switch to HealthStar, re-run the same search, and then limit to non-MEDLINE references.

Use MeSH terms like these: Use keywords like these: Search for authors like these:
Quality of Health Care
Quality Assurance, Health Care
Health Services Research
Total Quality Management
Outcome and Process Assessment
  (Health Care)
Leadership
Patient Satisfaction
 		clinical improvement
health care improvement
healthcare improvement
continual improvement
process analysis
process reengineering
team effectiveness
outcomes management
outcomes measurement
improvement knowledge
 Deming WE
Juran JM
Batalden PB
Berwick D
Stoltz PK
Nelson EC
Tarlov AR
Wennberg JC
O'Connor G
Box G

Other Resources

DHMC's Quality Research Grant Program
(603) 650-3841

"Inspiration" - Visual Thinking Software
http://www.inspiration.com/


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