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Tag Archives: Avoidable Hospital Admissions
Quality Improvement in Urgent and Emergency Care (NHS Improvement / NHS England / Department of Health)
Summary An earlier BBC News description of the problem: Full Text Link Reference Cawley, L. (2017). Four-hour accident and emergency waits rise 300% at some hospitals. London: BBC Health News, March 16th 2017. Further context and introductory analysis: Full Text … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Department of Health, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NHS Confederation, NHS England, NHS Evidence, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Nuffield Trust, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Standards, UK, Universal Interest, Wolverhampton
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Tagged 2017-19 Integration and Better Care Fund Policy Framework, A&E, A&E Waiting Times and Activity, Access to Urgent and Emergency Care, Accident and Emergency Doctors, Accountable Care Organisations (ACOs), Acute Assessment (Improving Patient Flow in Urgent and Emergency Care), Acute Care, Acute Care Collaboration, Acute Care Services, Acute Hospital A&E and Liaison Mental Health Teams, Acute Hospital A&E and Liaison Mental Health Teams: Transforming Mental Health Crisis Care (NHS England), Acute Hospital Care, Acute Medical Care for Frail Older People, Acute Medical Care of Elderly People, Acute Medicine Units (AMUs), Admission Transfer and Discharge (Improving Patient Flow in Urgent and Emergency Care), Ageing and Society, Ageing Population, Ambulance Handovers, Ambulance Handovers (Improving Patient Flow in Urgent and Emergency Care), Ambulatory Emergency Care (Improving Patient Flow in Urgent and Emergency Care), Association of Ambulance Chief Executives (AACE), Avoidable Acute Hospital Admission in Older People, Avoidable Admissions, Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Avoidable Hospital Admissions, Avoiding Unplanned Admissions, Barts Health NHS Trust, BBC Health News, Bristol Royal Infirmary, British Geriatrics Society (BGS), Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT), Centrally Coordinated Patient Flow (Use of Data in Hospital’s Dashboard), Clinical Decision Units (CDUs), Clinical Decision Units (Improving Patient Flow in Urgent and Emergency Care), Cm, Commons Health Select Committee, Delayed Transfers of Care, Delayed Transfers of Care (DTOC), Demand Management, Developing Trusted Assessment Schemes, Discharge and Out of Hospital Care, Dysfunctional Patient Flow, Early Supported Discharge (ESD), ECIP, ECIP: Emergency Care Improvement Programme, Emergency Admissions, Emergency Ambulance Services, Emergency and Urgent Care Services, Emergency Assessment Unit (EAU), Emergency Assessment Units, Emergency Assessment Units (EAUs), Emergency Attendances, Emergency Bed Use, Emergency Care, Emergency Care Improvement Programme (ECIP), Emergency Care Intensive Support Team (ECIST), Emergency Centres, Emergency Departments, Emergency Departments (Improving Patient Flow in Urgent and Emergency Care), Emergency Medical Services (EMS), Emergency Medicine Consultants, Emergency Services, Factors Behind Increasing Emergency Admissions, Factors in Increased Use of Urgent and Emergency Care, Flow Within Hospitals, Four-Hour A&E Waiting Time Target, Frailty, Frailty (Improving Patient Flow in Urgent and Emergency Care), Government Response to Health Select Committee Report on Winter Pressure in Accident and Emergency Departments (2017), GP Services Co-Located With A&E Department, GPs Co-Located With A&E Department, Health First (USA), Health Select Committee, Health Select Committee (HSC), Health Select Committee Inquiry, Health Select Committee Report on Winter Pressure in Accident and Emergency Departments, High Impact Change Model (HICM), Homes Regional Medical Centre (Florida), House of Commons Health Select Committee, Improving Patient Flow in Urgent and Emergency Care, Inappropriate Accident and Emergency Department Attendances, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integrated Emergency Department (A&E), Luton and Dunstable University NHS Foundation Trust, MDTs: Multidisciplinary Teams, Mental Health (Improving Patient Flow in Urgent and Emergency Care), Mental Health Crisis First Response Service (FRS) and Sanctuaries, Mid-Cheshire NHS Foundation Trust, National Priorities for Acute Hospitals (2017), Next steps on the NHS Five Year Forward View (2017), NHS Improvement, NHS in Winter (BBC News), NHS Winter Crisis, NHS111 Directory of Services (DoS), NHSI: NHS Improvement, Out-of-Hours GP Services Co-Located With A&E Department, Patient flow, Patient Flow Within Hospitals, Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: Acute Frailty Service, Preparations for Winter, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Preventing Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Case Management, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Crisis Resolution Teams, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Intermediate Care, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Proactive Management of Long-Term Conditions, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Team-Based Interventions in A&E, Primary Care Streaming (Improving Patient Flow in Urgent and Emergency Care), Priorities for Acute Hospitals, Real Time Locating Software (RTLS), Real-Time Locating Software (RTLS) to Improve Patient Flow, Reasons for Short Stay Emergency Admissions, Recognition and Diagnosis of Frailty, Reducing Unnecessary Admissions, Reducing Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Reducing Unscheduled Admissions, Review of Winter 2016/17 (NHS Improvement and NHS England), Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust Emergency Department, Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM), Royal 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Care Pathways, Urgent and Emergency Care Services, Urgent and Emergency Care Services in England, Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Winter From Hell: 2016-7 (Allegation), Winter Preparedness, Winter Pressure in Accident and Emergency Departments (House of Commons Health Select Committee: HC 277), Winter Pressures
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Approaches to the Reduction of Preventable Hospital Admissions: a Systematic Review (BMJ Open)
Summary A recent systematic review examined the alternatives to hospital admission for older patients at risk of unplanned hospitalisation. The broad categories of interventions considered were (i) improved use of paramedic / emergency care practitioners, (ii) interventions based in emergency … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, Stroke, Systematic Reviews, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Acute Hospital Care, Ageing and Society, Ageing Population, Avoidable Acute Hospital Admission in Older People, Avoidable Admissions, Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Avoidable Hospital Admissions, Avoiding Unplanned Admissions, BMJ Open, BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, Bristol, Bristol Randomised Trials Collaboration: University of Bristol, Brunelcare: Saffron Gardens (Bristol), Case Management, Centre for Academic Primary Care: University of Bristol, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Community Hospitals, COPD: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Crisis Resolution Teams, Department of Emergency Medicine: University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, Emergency Admissions, Emergency and Urgent Care Services, Emergency Attendances, Emergency Care, Emergency Centres, Emergency Departments, Emergency Medical Services (EMS), Emergency Services, Factors Behind Increasing Emergency Admissions, Factors in Increased Use of Urgent and Emergency Care, Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences: University of the West of England, HaH Interventions, HaH: Hospital at Home, Health Economics at Bristol: University of Bristol, Heart Failure, Intermediate Care, Pneumonia, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Preventing Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Case Management, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Crisis Resolution Teams, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Intermediate Care, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Proactive Management of Long-Term Conditions, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Team-Based Interventions in A&E, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Telehealth, Proactive Management of Long-Term Conditions, Pulmonary Embolism, Reasons for Short Stay Emergency Admissions, Reducing Unnecessary Admissions, Reducing Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Reducing Unscheduled Admissions, School of Social and Community Medicine: University of Bristol, Systematic Review, Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses, Uncomplicated Diverticulitis, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, University of Bristol, University of the West of England, Unnecessary Hospital Admissions, Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Unscheduled Admissions, Unscheduled Care Pathways, Urgent and Emergency Care, Urgent and Emergency Care Pathways, Urgent and Emergency Care Services, Urgent and Emergency Care Services in England
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On the Unrealised Potential of Intermediate Care (SCIE / Nuffield Trust)
Summary The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)’s “SCIE Highlights No.1” briefing explores the largely untapped potential of intermediate care. It is asserted that intermediate care could deliver better outcomes for patients, while reducing the pressures of demand faced by … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, Falls Prevention, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Nuffield Trust, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, SCIE, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Accountable Care Systems (ACSs), Acute Hospitals: Bed-Based Services, Ageing Population, Avoidable Acute Hospital Admission in Older People, Avoidable Admissions, Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Avoidable Hospital Admissions, Avoidable Rehospitalisations, Bed Based Intermediate Care, Bed Based Services, Bed Occupancy, Bed-Based Intermediate Care Services, Bed/Home and Step Up/Down Provision, Better Care Fund (BCF), Capitated Budgets, Care Closer to Home, Communication and Information Sharing, Community Hospitals: Bed-Based Services, Community-Based Interventions, Community-Based Rehabilitation Services, Community-Based Services, Community-Based Support, Control and Independence, Cookson's Court (Yeovil), Crisis Home Treatment, Crisis Response Services, Crisis Support, Delayed Discharges, Delayed Transfers of Care, Demographic Time-Bomb, Dependency Levels, Destination on Discharge, Dignified Independent Living With Care, Discharge Destination, Discharge of Hospital Patients With Care and Support Needs, Discharge Planning, Economic Sustainability, Elderly Rehabilitation Services, Emergency Admissions, Emergency Readmissions, Emergency Readmissions to Hospital, Funding and Payment Mechanisms, Geographical Variations, Health and Social Care Integration, Health and Social Care Reform, Home Based Intermediate Care, Home Based Services, Hospital Discharge, Independence, Independence and Wellbeing, Independent Sector Facilities: Bed-Based Services, Information Resources on Intermediate Care: Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), Information Sharing, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integration, Intermediate Care, Intermediate Care - Draft Guideline: National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (2017), Intermediate Care Beds, Intermediate Care Capacity, Intermediate Care Teams, Intermediate Care: Elements of Effective Implementation, Intermediate Care: Evidence of Effectiveness, Intermediate Care: Return on Investment, Intermediate Care: SCIE Highlights No.1, Length of Stay, Length of Stay (LoS), Lessons and Challenges of Intermediate Care: Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), Local Authority Facilities: Bed-Based Services, Local Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), Local Variations, Maintaining Independence, Moving Healthcare Closer to Home, Multi-Disciplinary Case Management, Multi-Disciplinary Teams, Multi-Disciplinary Working, NHS Sustainability, Nursing Homes: Bed-Based Services, Other Bedbased Settings: Bed-Based Services, Partnership Working, Patient Flows, Policy Context and Models of Intermediate Care, Pooled Health and Social Care Budgets, Preventing Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Preventing Future Crises, Prevention, Prevention Agenda, Prevention and Wellbeing, Quality and Sustainability, Rapid Response Services: Intermediate Services, Re-ablement Services, Reablement, Reablement Services, Reablement: Stabilise and Make Safe (Trafford), Readmissions for Patients with Long Term Conditions, Recovery Rehabilitation and Reablement Services, Regaining Independence, Rehabilitation Services, Residential Care Homes: Bed-Based Services, Return on Investment, Services Maximising Independence, Services Reducing Use of Hospitals, Single Point of Access (SPA), Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)’s SCIE Highlights No.1: Intermediate Care, Somerset Care, Somerset Care and Yeovil District Hospital: Cooksons Court, Somerset County Council, Stabilise and Make Safe (SAMS), Stabilise and Make Safe (Trafford), Standalone Intermediate Care Facilities: Bed-Based Services, Staying Independent, Supporting Health Wellbeing and Independence, Sustainability, Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), Sustainable Care, Sustainable Health and Social Care, System Leadership, Theoretical Benefits of Intermediate Care, Tipping Point in Sustainability of Adult Social Care (Alleged), Trafford Council, Turning the Ship Around (Avoidance of NHS Unsustainability), Unacceptable Variations, Unwarranted Variations, Variations in Service, Waiting Times for Intermediate Care, Whole System Impact, Whole System Patient Flows, Whole System Performance, Whole-System Approaches, Year of Care Commissioning, Year of Care Funding Model, Yeovil District Hospital
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Enhanced Support: Reducing Hospital Admissions From Care Homes (NHS England / Health Foundation)
Summary Care home residents in Rushcliffe (Nottinghamshire) receiving an enhanced care package, delivered by the Principia Partners in Health multispecialty community provider vanguard – which includes regular visits from named GPs and independent support from Age UK Nottingham and Nottinghamshire … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Age UK, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Health Foundation, Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, NHS England, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Access to Health and Social Care Support, Adam Steventon: Director of Data Analytics at Health Foundation, Advocacy and Independent Support, Age UK Nottingham, Alignment Between General Practices and Care Homes, Anxiety or Depression, Arden & Greater East Midlands Data Services for Commissioners Regional Office (Arden & GEM DSCRO), Avoidable Hospital Admissions, Care Home Managers, Care Homes, Care Homes Wellbeing, Chronic Pulmonary Disease, Cognitive Impairment, Community-Based Volunteering, Congestive Heart Failure, Diabetes with Chronic Complication, Enhanced Care Packages (Care Homes), Enhanced Specification of General Practice Care for Frail Older People Living in Care Homes, Enhanced Support, Falls, Five Year Forward View - Next Steps: New Care Models, Fractures, Functional Dependence, Health and Social Care Configuration, Health and Social Care Delivery Models, Health and Social Care in the Community, Health and Social Care Integration, Hemiplegia / Paraplegia, Hospital Admissions, Improved Support from Community Nurses for Nurses Employed in Care Homes, Improvement Analytics Unit: Health Foundation, Incontinence, Influence of Primary Care Quality Upon Hospital Admissions by People with Dementia in England, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integrated Out-of-Hospital Care: Multispecialty Community Providers, Integration of Health and Care, Interface Between Primary and Secondary Care, Living Well in Care Homes, Malignant Cancer, Metastatic Cancer With Solid Tumour, Mobility Problems, Multispecialty Community Provider (MCP) Model, Multispecialty Community Providers, Multispecialty Community Providers (Integrated Out-of-Hospital Care), Multispecialty Community Providers (MCPs), Multispecialty Community Providers (MCPs) - Vanguard Site: Principia Partners in Health, Multispecialty Community Providers (MCPs) Vanguard Sites, Named GPs, National Health Applications and Infrastructure Services (NHAIS) Database, New Care Models, New Care Models: Vanguard Sites, New Models of Care, New Models of Primary Care, NHS England’s New Models of Care Programme, Nottinghamshire, Nottinghamshire (Age UK Notts), Nottinghamshire Council, Nottinghamshire County CCGs, Operational Research and Evaluation Team at NHS England, People with Dementia in Care Homes, Peripheral Vascular Disease, Pressure Ulcers, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Principia Partners in Health, Principia’s Enhanced Support Package, Programmes to Engage and Support Care Home Managers, Quality and Safety Improvement Approaches in Care Homes, Quality Improvement, Quality of Life for People Living in Care Homes, Rates of Hospital Admissions by Care Home Residents, Reducing Hospital Attendance, Reducing Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Research in Care Homes, Rushcliffe (Nottinghamshire), Samantha Jones: Director of New Models of Care at NHS England, Skills and Training, Staff Training, Support for Care Homes, Training and Support, Unnecessary Hospital Admissions, Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Vanguards: New Care Models Programme, Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS)
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Allied Health Professionals: AHPs Into Action (NHS England)
Summary NHS England has released a report explaining how the NHS, the social care system and society at large could be transformed if the Allied Health Professions (AHPs) were used more effectively. Fifty three case studies describe examples of innovative … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Assistive Technology, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, NHS England, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Physiotherapy, Quick Insights, Standards, Telecare, Telehealth, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged 5YFV: NHS Five Year Forward View, A&E Emergency Care Practitioners, Adult Social Care and Wellbeing, Advanced Life Support Trainers, Ageing Population, AHP Professional Bodies, AHPs Into Action, Allied Health Professionals, Allied Health Professionals (AHPs), Allied Health Professions (AHPs), Allied Health Professions into Action: NHS England (2016/17 - 2020/21), Alternatives to Hospital Admission, Art Therapists, Avoidable Hospital Admissions, Care Closer to Home, Challenging Traditional Approaches to Care Practice for People With Dementia, Chief Allied Health Professions Officer (CAHPO), Community Rehabilitation, Costs and Cost Pressures, Crowdsourcing, Day Surgery, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Radiographers, Dietitians, Drama Therapists, First International Conference on Arts and Dementia Research, Five Year Forward View (NHS England), Greater Manchester Dementia Action Alliance, Greenview Intermediate Care Unit, Local Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), Manchester Camerata, Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust, Moving Healthcare Closer to Home, Multi-Morbidity, Music in Mind, Music Therapists, Music Therapy, Music Therapy and Dementia, NHS England’s Five Year Forward View, NHS Five Year Forward View (5YFV), NHS Sustainability, Obesity, Occupational Therapists, Occupational Therapy, Operating Department Practitioners (ODPs), Orthopists, Osteopaths, Osteopathy, Paramedics, Physician Associate Anaesthesia (PAAs), Physiotherapists, Podiatrists, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Prosthetists and Orthotists, Recovery Rehabilitation and Reablement (RRR), Reducing Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Rehabilitation, Royal Bolton Hospital, Royal Bolton Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Safe and Well Checks, Safe and Well Visits, Samantha Jones: Director of New Models of Care at NHS England, Speech and Language Therapists (SLTs), Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), Suzanne Rastrick: NHS England’s Chief Allied Health Professions Officer, Transplant Co-ordinators, Using Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) to Transform Health Social Care and Wellbeing, Wythenshawe Hospital
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Palliative Care in Advanced Dementia (Cochrane Database)
Summary A recent Cochrane review assessed the evidence concerning the effect of palliative care interventions in advanced dementia. As usually happens in rigorous studies of this nature, the authors of this review could find few high quality trials exploring palliative … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, End of Life Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), Integrated Care, International, Management of Condition, Models of Dementia Care, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Systematic Reviews
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Tagged Advance Care Planning, ALOIS: the Cochrane Dementia and Cognitive Improvement Group, Assisted Feeding Treatments, Avoidable Hospital Admissions, Care Planning, Care Planning and Proxy Decision Making, Cochrane Database, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Death in Hospital, Decision-Making at End of Life, Easing Decision-Making, Ethics and Decision-Making, Feeding Assistance, Feeding Discussions, Home Palliative Care Services, Hospital Admissions, HRB Primary Care Clinical Trials Network Ireland, Ireland, NUI Galway, Palliative Care, Palliative Care in Advanced Dementia, Palliative Care in Older People With Dementia, Palliative Care Intervention, Palliative Care Planning, Palliative Care Teams, Palliative Care Teams in Acute Hospitals, Palliative Care Teams Versus Usual Care, Personalised Care Planning, Shared Decision-Making, Specialist Palliative Care Teams, Surrogate Decision-Making
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Quality Improvement Metrics: a New System For Measuring Whole System Performance (IHI)
Summary Analysts at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) in the United States have developed an improved set of measures by which to assess the performance of health care organisations and health care systems. Their “Whole System Measures 2.0 (WSM … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), Integrated Care, International, Local Interest, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics
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Tagged Access, Access to Care, Access to Healthcare Services, Accountability, Accountability and Integration, Accountability in Health and Social Care, Accountable Care Organisations, Accountable Care Organisations (ACOs), Accountable Care Organisations (in United States and England), Accountable Financial Stewardship, Affordability, Affordability of Care, Avoidable Admissions, Avoidable Harm, Avoidable Hospital Admissions, Clinical Quality Dashboards, Community Wellbeing, Community Wellbeing and Health Equity, Corporate Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Dashboards, Days to Third Next Available Appointment, Disparities in Infant Mortality Rates, Encouraging Healthy Behaviour, End-User Experience, Equity (Stratification of Whole System Measures), Experience of Care, Experience of Care Domain Measures, Financial Stewardship, Functional Health Outcomes Score, Governance and Accountability, Health Care Cost Per Capita, Health Care Costs, Health Care Workforce, Health Inequalities, Healthy Behaviour, Healthy Behaviours, Healthy Lifestyles, Hospital Aquired Conditions, Hospital Days Per Decedent During Last Six Months of Life, Hospital Readmission Percentage, Hospital Standardized Mortality Ratio (HSMR), Hospital-Acquired Infections, IHI Innovation Series, IHI Triple Aim, IHI: Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Improving Patient Experience, Improving Population Health, Incidence of Nonfatal Occupational Injuries and Illnesses, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), Lifestyle Intervention Programmes, Local Health and Care Economies, Local Health and Care Services, Local Health and Social Care Economies, Local Health and Wellbeing, Local Health Economies, Measuring Whole System Performance, Monitoring Health and Health Care, Mortality Rates, Obesity, Optimal Lifestyle Metrics, Overweight, Patient Experience, Patient Experience Score, Patient Harm, Patient Satisfaction with Care Score, Per Capita Cost of Care Domain Measures, Population Health, Population Health and Prevention, Population Health Domain Measures, Population Health Perspective, Population Health Systems, Population Healthcare, Preventable Adverse Events, Preventable Harm, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Prevention, Prevention Agenda, Prevention Approaches, Quality Improvement, Quality Improvement Metrics, RAND Delphi Procedure, Rate of Adverse Events, Reducing Health Inequalities, Reliability of Core Measures, Serious Reportable Events (SREs), Social Responsibility, Societal Footprints, Toyota Specification, Triple Aim Initiative, Triple Aim: (1) Improved Health and Wellbeing (2) Redesigned Care and (3) Wise Financial Stewardship, Unadjusted Raw Mortality Percentage, United States, Unmet Care Needs, Unmet Health Needs, Unmet Needs, Unmet Needs of Family Carers, Unmet Social Care Needs, USA, User Experience, Vital Signs Measure, Whole System Dashboards, Whole System Measures 2.0 (WSM 2.0), Whole System Measures 2.0 IHI White Paper, Whole System Measures 2.0: White Paper (2016), Whole System Measures IHI White Paper (2007), Whole System Measures: White Paper (2007), Whole-System Approaches, Workforce Wellbeing
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