ArticleQuality & safety in health care2002
Qualitative methods in research on healthcare quality.
Article in Quality & safety in health care, 2002. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT00773799 (Mastering Hospital Antimicrobial Resistance and Its Spread Into the Community), which is not on this map. Cited by 222 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Mastering Hospital Antimicrobial Resistance and Its Spread Into the Community
Who cites it
222 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Knowledge and perceptions of familial and genetic risks for breast cancer risk in adolescent girls.Breast cancer research and treatment · 2012Trial
- Implementation of a program for type 2 diabetes based on the Chronic Care Model in a hospital-centered health care system: "the Belgian experience".BMC health services research · 2009Trial
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Abstract
There are no easy solutions to the problem of improving the quality of care. Research has shown how difficult it can be, but has failed to provide reliable and effective ways to change services and professional performance for the better. Much depends on the perspectives of users and the attitudes and behaviours of professionals in the context of their organisations and healthcare teams. Qualitative research offers a variety of methods for identifying what really matters to patients and carers, detecting obstacles to changing performance, and explaining why improvement does or does not occur. The use of such methods in future studies could lead to a better understanding of how to improve quality.
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