Health Systems Improvement Across the Globe

Preface; Editors' biographies; Authors' biographies; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Argentina: Successful Initiatives in Quality and Patient Safety in Argentina; Brazil: Knowledge Management for Quality Improvement in Brazil; Canada: Improving Stroke Outcomes in Canada: The Accreditation Canada Stroke Distinction Program; Chile: Constructing Symbolic Capital: A Case Study From Chile; Ecuador: Improving Hospital Management as Part of the Health Reform Process in Ecuador: The Case of Abel Gilbert Ponton Hospital; Guyana: Holistic Geriatric Mega-Clinics for Care of the Elderly in Guyana; Mexico: Monitoring and Evaluation Strategy of the Mexican Health Reform: Content, Conditions for Implementation and Sustainability; United States of America: The Use of Report Cards and Outcome Measurements to Improve the Safety of Surgical Care: The American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program; Venezuela: Mision Barrio Adentro: Universal Health Coverage Efforts in Venezuela; Ghana: Health Workforce: Arresting the Brain Drain in Ghana; Namibia: A Public Health Approach to Quality Management: How a Disease-Specific Improvement Program Propelled a National Health-Systems-Wide Quality Program in Namibia; Nigeria: Removing the Imaginary Walls That Divide and Limit; Rwanda: Community-Based Health Insurance in Rwanda: How it Fostered Achievement of the Millennium Developments Goals; South Africa: The Development of an Equitable National Juristic Body to Regulate Public and Private Healthcare Establishments in South Africa-A Progress Report; West Africa: Quality Improvement in Ebola Affected Countries: From Recovery to Resilience; Austria: Stroke-Units in Austria: Incubators for Improved Health Outcomes; Denmark: Cancer Patient Pathways; England: A NICE Success Story From the English National Health Service; Estonia: Primary Healthcare Reform as a Promotor of Quality in the Estonian Healthcare System; Finland: Evidence Based Medicine and Health Information Technology: Transforming Clinical Practices in Finland; France: The French Healthcare System and its Alternative Approach to Patient Safety; Germany: Scaling up a Population-Based Integrated Healthcare System: The Case of 'Healthy Kinzigtal' in Germany; Ireland: St. James's Hospital National Hemophilia System; Israel: A Nation-Wide Health Information Exchange Program in Israel: A Unique Case Study; Italy: Post-Marketing Successful Strategies to Manage Pharmaceutical Innovation; Malta: Reform of the Medical Profession and Reversal of Brain Drain in Malta-A Success Story; The Netherlands: Patient Safety in Dutch Hospitals: How Can We Explain Success?; Northern Ireland: Adopting a Collaborative Approach to Improve Care for Women and Their Babies in Northern Ireland; Norway: Improving Patient Safety in Norwegian Hospitals Through a Standardized Approach Towards the Measurement and Monitoring of Adverse Events; Portugal: Reducing Hospital Acquired Infection in Portuguese Hospitals: A Collaborative Approach Towards Quality Improvement; Russia: Progress in Healthcare Quality in Russia; Scotland: Partnership and Collaboration as the Hallmark of Scottish Healthcare Improvement; Serbia: Using Data to Protect Vulnerable Children; Spain: Organ Donation and Transplantation in Spain: ONT's Success Story; Sweden: Sweden Mines the Gold in Clinical Data for Research and Better Patient Care; Switzerland: Switzerland's Use of Breakthrough Collaboratives to Improve Patient Safety; Turkey: Establishment of a National Healthcare Accreditation System in Turkey; Wales: Implementing Shared Decision Making in Practice: Demonstrating Strategic Improvement; PART IV Eastern Mediterranean; Afghanistan: Improving Afghanistan's Hospital Services: Implementation of Minimum Required Standards; The Gulf States: Unified Procurement of Pharmaceuticals and Medical Supplies for GCC Countries: A Great Success Story; Iran: Health Transformation Plan in Iran; Jordan: Health Care Accreditation Council of Jordan: Driving System Reform, Patient Safety, and Quality; Lebanon: "You don't have to be superman to save lives. Give blood." Improving the Health System Through Social Innovation: The Case of Donner Sang Compter; Oman: Al-Shifa Electronic Health Record System: From Simple Start to Paradigm Model; Pakistan: Health Systems, Accreditation and Databases-Pakistan's Perspective; Qatar: Successful Implementation of a Deteriorating Patient Safety Net System in Qatar: The Qatar Early Warning System (QEWS); United Arab Emirates: Abu Dhabi Healthcare Reform: Improving Quality Through a Single Payment System; Yemen: Improvement of Basic Health Services in Yemen: A Successful Donor-Driven Improvement Initiative; PART V South-East Asia & Western Pacific; Australia: Two Decades of Evolving a Patient Safety System: An Australian Story of Reducing Harm to Deteriorating Patients; China: Self-Service Encounter System in Tertiary Hospitals; Fiji: A Context-Specific Approach to Primary Care Strengthening in Fiji; Hong Kong: Integrating Care for High Risk Elderly Patients After Discharge From Hospitals in Hong Kong; India: India's Road Map to 'Affordable & Safe Health for All' Through PPP; Japan: Universal Insurance; Malaysia: From Maternal Mortality to Maternal Health-The Malaysian Experience; New Zealand: Ko Awatea: Improving Quality, Promoting Innovation; Papua New Guinea: Establishment of the Provincial Health Authority in Papua New Guinea; Taiwan: Taiwan's Health Information Technology Journey: From Flash Drive to Health Cloud; Discussion and Conclusion; References; Index