Improving healthcare quality in Europe: characteristics, effectiveness and implementation of different strategies

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dc.coverageCopenhagen
dc.creatorWorld Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe
dc.creatorEuropean Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
dc.creatorBusse, Reinhard
dc.creatorKlazinga, Niek
dc.creatorPanteli, Dimitra
dc.creatorQuentin, Wilm
dc.date2019-09-16T09:26:54Z
dc.date2019-09-16T09:26:54Z
dc.date2019-09-16
dc.date.accessioned2026-08-03T06:35:58Z
dc.description419 p.
dc.descriptionQuality improvement initiatives take many forms, from the creation of standards for health professionals, health technologies and health facilities, to audit and feedback, and from fostering a patient safety culture to public reporting and paying for quality. For policy-makers who struggle to decide which initiatives to prioritize for investment, understanding the potential of different quality strategies in their unique settings is key. This volume, developed by the Observatory together with OECD, provides an overall conceptual framework for understanding and applying strategies aimed at improving quality of care. Crucially, it summarizes available evidence on different quality strategies and provides recommendations for their implementation. This book is intended to help policy-makers to understand concepts of quality and to support them to evaluate single strategies and combinations of strategies. Quality of care is a political priority and an important contributor to population health. This book acknowledges that "quality of care" is a broadly defined concept, and that it is often unclear how quality improvement strategies fit within a health system, and what their particular contribution can be. This volume elucidates the concepts behind multiple elements of quality in health care policy (including definitions of quality, its dimensions, related activities and targets), quality measurement and governance and situates it all in the wider context of health systems research. By so doing, this book is designed to help policy-makers prioritize and align different quality initiatives and to achieve a comprehensive approach to quality improvement.
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dc.identifier9789289051750
dc.identifierhttps://iris.who.int/handle/10665/327356
dc.identifier.urihttps://repo.dare.co.zw/handle/123456789/209235
dc.languageEnglish
dc.languageen
dc.publisherWorld Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe
dc.relationHealth Policy Series: 53
dc.subjectQuality Assurance, Health Care
dc.subjectDelivery of Health Care
dc.subjectOutcome and Process Assessment, Health Care
dc.subjectCost-Benefit Analysis
dc.subjectHealth Policy
dc.titleImproving healthcare quality in Europe: characteristics, effectiveness and implementation of different strategies
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