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

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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/

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.

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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

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