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Quality is being measured and reported across healthcare organizations and sectors, but efforts are rarely made to connect the activity in one organization to quality experienced by patients and clients in another part of the healthcare system. This article describes one regional health organization's journey to measuring health quality at a system level. The authors describe a highly consultative and iterative process used to measure quality across the continuum of care, and the challenges experienced in approaching this type of measurement, and they highlight some of the early findings.
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Garantia da Qualidade dos Cuidados de Saúde/métodos , Programas Médicos Regionais/normas , Continuidade da Assistência ao Paciente/normas , Serviço Hospitalar de Emergência/estatística & dados numéricos , Humanos , Ontário , Readmissão do Paciente/normas , Readmissão do Paciente/estatística & dados numéricos , Garantia da Qualidade dos Cuidados de Saúde/normas , Indicadores de Qualidade em Assistência à Saúde , Qualidade da Assistência à Saúde/normas , Listas de EsperaRESUMO
The present study (N = 479 students) investigated children's preferences in regard to four traditionally female occupations and four traditionally male occupations. Each pair of jobs was selected to represent four different levels of status: i.e., professional, skilled, semiskilled, and unskilled labor. Results were as predicted. Over four age groups from fifth grade through college, boys and girls became less stereotypic in their occupational preferences. Apparently, once children become aware that jobs of higher status level offer more rewards in terms of money and prestige, they will choose a higher status nontraditional job, rather than a lower status traditional job. This appears to be more true for females than for males.
