Quality

Baruch, Lawrence; Phillips, Robert A.

doi:10.1001/archinte.165.13.1455

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“…A variety of strategies can be used to close the treatment gaps including reminder systems, timely feedback, and alternative models of care [150, 151]. In The Registry to Improve the Use of Evidence-Based Heart Failure Therapies in the Outpatient Setting (IMPROVE HF) which included 34,810 patients with reduced LVEF, a number of quality initiatives including clinical decision support tools, reminder systems, chart audits with timely feedback, benchmarked reports, and educational outreach were implemented across 167 outpatient practices in the USA.…”

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Chronic Heart Failure: We Are Fighting the Battle, but Are We Winning the War?

Atherton

2012

Scientifica

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Heart failure represents an end-stage phenotype of a number of cardiovascular diseases and is generally associated with a poor prognosis. A number of organized battles fought over the last two to three decades have resulted in considerable advances in treatment including the use of drugs that interfere with neurohormonal activation and device-based therapies such as implantable cardioverter defibrillators and cardiac resynchronization therapy. Despite this, the prevalence of heart failure continues to rise related to both the aging population and better survival in patients with cardiovascular disease. Registries have identified treatment gaps and variation in the application of evidenced-based practice, including the use of echocardiography and prescribing of disease-modifying drugs. Quality initiatives often coupled with multidisciplinary, heart failure disease management promote self-care and minimize variation in the application of evidenced-based practice leading to better long-term clinical outcomes. However, to address the rising prevalence of heart failure and win the war, we must also turn our attention to disease prevention. A combined approach is required that includes public health measures applied at a population level and screening strategies to identify individuals at high risk of developing heart failure in the future.

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Chronic Heart Failure: We Are Fighting the Battle, but Are We Winning the War?

Atherton

2012

Scientifica

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Metadata quality in digital repositories: Empirical results from the cross‐domain transfer of a quality assurance process

Palavitsinis

Manouselis²,

Sánchez‐Alonso

2014

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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Metadata quality presents a challenge faced by many digital repositories. There is a variety of proposed quality assurance frameworks applied in repositories that are deployed in various contexts. Although studies report that there is an improvement of the quality of the metadata in many of the applications, the transfer of a successful approach from one application context to another has not been studied to a satisfactory extent. This article presents the empirical results of the application of a metadata quality assurance process that has been developed and successfully applied in an educational context (learning repositories) to 2 different application contexts to compare results with the previous application and assess its generalizability. More specifically, it reports results from the adaptation and application of this process in a library context (institutional repositories) and in a cultural context (digital cultural repositories). Initial empirical findings indicate that content providers seem to be gaining a better understanding of metadata when the proposed process is put in place and that the quality of the produced metadata records increases.

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