All Articles tagged quality

• Policy Forum: Issue Brief
  May 07, 2024 EDT
  An Update on Interprofessional Education and Practice in North Carolina: The State of the State
  Jill ForcinaMeg Zomorodi

  Team-based care is a critical ingredient in the success of efforts to address health and workforce needs. Here is an update on happenings in North Carolina related to team-based care.

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• Policy Forum: Invited Commentaries & Sidebars
  November 01, 2008 EDT
  Accountability Means Quality Physical Activity
  Ernest Holcomb

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• Policy Forum: Columns
  March 01, 2008 EDT
  Tarheel Footprints in Health Care: Recognizing unusual and often unsung contributions of individual citizens who have made health care for North Carolinians more accessible and of higher quality
  Paul A. Buescher

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• Policy Forum: Columns
  November 01, 2007 EDT
  Hospital Quality and Patient Safety: Notable News from The North Carolina Center for Hospital Quality and Patient Safety
  Carol Koeble

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• Policy Forum: Columns
  November 01, 2006 EDT
  Hospital Quality and Patient Safety: Notable News from The North Carolina Center for Hospital Quality and Patient Safety
  Carol Koeble

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• Policy Forum: Columns
  September 01, 2006 EDT
  Hospital Quality and Patient Safety: Notable News from The North Carolina Center for Hospital Quality and Patient Safety
  Carol Koeble

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• Policy Forum: Invited Commentaries & Sidebars
  September 01, 2005 EDT
  The Benefits of a North Carolina Policy for Determining Inappropriate or Futile Medical Care
  Arthur E. KopelmanJoseph Clinton ParkerGeorge HoCharles F. WillsonLoretta M. Kopelman

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• Policy Forum: Introduction
  July 01, 2005 EDT
  Introduction: Policy Forum: Quality of Long-Term Care: Nutrition as a Critical Dimension
  Gordon H. DeFrieseKristie Weisner Thompson

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• Policy Forum: Issue Brief
  July 01, 2005 EDT
  Nutrition and the Dining Experience in Long-Term Care: Critical Indicators of Nursing Home Quality of Care
  Polly Godwin Welsh

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• Policy Forum: Invited Commentaries & Sidebars
  July 01, 2005 EDT
  So, Who’s Complaining about the Food?: Ombudsman Perspectives on “the Dining Experience” in North Carolina’s Nursing Homes
  H. Harvin QuidasTwilla ChavisAimee D. KeplerNancy Murphy

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• Policy Forum: Invited Commentaries & Sidebars
  July 01, 2005 EDT
  May I Serve You, Please?
  Ted W. Goins

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• Policy Forum: Invited Commentaries & Sidebars
  July 01, 2005 EDT
  The Dining Experience in Nursing Homes
  Beverly A. SperoffKaren H. DavisKristen L. DehrKate N. Larkins

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• Policy Forum: Invited Commentaries & Sidebars
  July 01, 2005 EDT
  Fluid Intake and Hydration: Critical Indicators of Nursing Home Quality
  Robert J. Sullivan

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• Policy Forum: Invited Commentaries & Sidebars
  July 01, 2005 EDT
  Creative Hydration Programs
  Lanaya Cunningham

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• Policy Forum: Invited Commentaries & Sidebars
  July 01, 2005 EDT
  A Physician’s Perspective on the Dining Experience in Long-Term Care
  Christopher M. Herman

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• Policy Forum: Invited Commentaries & Sidebars
  July 01, 2005 EDT
  Nutrition in Advanced Alzheimer’s Disease
  Heidi K. White

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• Policy Forum: Invited Commentaries & Sidebars
  July 01, 2005 EDT
  Use of Feeding Tubes in the Care of Long-Term Care Residents
  Timothy S. Carey

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• Original Research
  May 01, 2005 EDT
  Health-related Quality of Life among North Carolina Adults with Diabetes Mellitus
  Deborah Patrick WubbenDeborah Porterfield

  Previous research on health-related quality of life among people with diabetes used subgroups who were not representative of a larger population and long questionnaires that are not practical for surveillance.

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• Policy Forum: Invited Commentaries & Sidebars
  May 01, 2005 EDT
  Access Healthcare: A Model to Provide Improved Access to High-Quality and Affordable Healthcare
  Brian R. Forrest

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• Policy Forum: Invited Commentaries & Sidebars
  May 01, 2005 EDT
  Application of Quality-Improvement Methods in a Community Practice: The Sandhills Pediatrics Asthma Initiative
  Thomas H. WrothJoseph C. Boals

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• Policy Forum: Invited Commentaries & Sidebars
  May 01, 2005 EDT
  Disease Management in Primary Care: Rapid Cycle Quality Improvement of Asthma Care
  Samuel S. Weir

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• Policy Forum: Invited Commentaries & Sidebars
  March 01, 2005 EDT
  Free Clinics in North Carolina: A Network of Compassion, Volunteerism, and Quality Care for Those without Healthcare Options
  Olivia FlemingJohn Mills

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• Correspondence
  November 01, 2004 EDT
  Quality Care and Performance Improvement
  David Garr

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• Policy Forum: Issue Brief
  September 01, 2004 EDT
  Quality of Care and Performance Improvement: An Important New Emphasis Whose Time Has Come
  Lawrence M. CutchinClyde L. Brooks

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• Policy Forum: Issue Brief
  September 01, 2004 EDT
  Quality of Care and Health System Performance: Where Are We Now? Where Should We Be Going? Who Can Take Charge and Lead Us There?
  Meera A. KelleyRoss J. Simpson

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• Policy Forum: Issue Brief
  September 01, 2004 EDT
  The Practice of Quality: Incorporating High-Yield Strategies into the Daily Reality of Medical Practice
  Sharon K. HullLeila C. KahwatiElizabeth P. KanofJennifer P. Proko

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• Policy Forum: Invited Commentaries & Sidebars
  September 01, 2004 EDT
  Disease Management Approaches to Quality Improvement
  John R. MangumConrad L. Flick

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• Policy Forum: Invited Commentaries & Sidebars
  September 01, 2004 EDT
  Educating a New Generation of Healthcare Professionals with a Lifelong Commitment to Quality of Care
  Stephen E. WillisThomas J. PulliamThomas J. Bacon

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• Policy Forum: Invited Commentaries & Sidebars
  September 01, 2004 EDT
  Making Healthcare ‘Patient-Centered’: The Centerpiece of Quality Improvement
  L. Allen DobsonMichelle F. Jones

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• Policy Forum: Invited Commentaries & Sidebars
  September 01, 2004 EDT
  Quality of Care and Performance Improvement: Two Ideas that Go Hand-in-Hand
  Noel B. McDevittWilliam A. WalkerGordon H. DeFriese

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• Policy Forum: Invited Commentaries & Sidebars
  March 01, 2004 EDT
  Developing an Adequate and High Quality Nurse Aide Workforce in North Carolina
  Susan HarmuthJesse S. Goodman

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• Original Research
  March 01, 2003 EDT
  Prevalence and Care of Diabetes Mellitus in the Medicare Population of North Carolina: Baseline Findings from the Medicare Healthcare Quality Improvement Program
  Mark W. MassingNancy HenleyDavid BiggsAnna SchenckRoss J. Simpson

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