Wednesday 18 May 2011

World Health Organisation

World health statistics 2011

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Royal College of Nursing

RCN works with NICE on quality standards

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NICE

New online tool brings all NICE guidance together for the first time

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National Academies Press

Health literacy: a prescription to end confusion

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Institute of Medicine of the National Academies

Child and adolescent health and healthcare quality: measuring what matters

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Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Patient and family centered care: why it matters and how to practice it (online video)

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INAHTA

Comparison of tools for assessing the methodological quality of primary and secondary studies in health technology assessment reports

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Healthcare Governance Review

National health service landscape review (England)

Health Matters: new directions in healthcare governance

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Health Information and Quality Authority (Ireland)

International review of health information governance management

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E-Watch on Innovation in Health Services

Transforming Canadian healthcare through consumer engagement: the key to quality and system innovation

Interventions encouraging the use of systematic reviews by health policy makers and managers: a systematic review

Using evidence: advances and debates in bridging health research and action

Can evidence based medicine and clinical quality improvement learn from each other?

The effectiveness of strategies to change organizational culture to improve healthcare performance: a systematic review

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Department of Health

Allied Health Professions service improvement project

Governance arrangements for research ethics committees

Extension of mandatory surveillance to E.coli bloodstream infections – June 2011

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Commonwealth Fund

Lessons from high and low performing states for raising overall health system performance

Interventions to reduce hospitalizations from nursing homes: evaluation of the INTERACT II collaborative quality improvement project

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