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Published in: BMC Health Services Research 1/2015

Open Access 01-12-2015 | Research article

Do relationships exist between the scope and intensity of quality improvement activities and hospital operation performance? A 10-year observation in Taiwan

Authors: Kuo-Piao Chung, Tsung-Hsien Yu

Published in: BMC Health Services Research | Issue 1/2015

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Abstract

Background

The relationship between the scope and intensity of quality improvement (QI) activities and hospital performance remains unclear. This study investigated the relationship between performance, external environment, and the scope and intensity of QI activities in hospitals.

Methods

The study used a longitudinal observation. Data regarding the scope and intensity of QI activities were collected using a questionnaire survey among the administrative deputy superintendents / directors of quality management center in 139 hospitals. Hospital performance indicators were abstracted from the 2000–2009 national hospitals profiles. We adopted year 2000 as the baseline, and divided the study period into three 3-year periods. The Generalized Estimating Equations (GEE) model was used for the statistical analysis.

Results

Seventy-two hospitals responded to the survey, giving a response rate of 52 %. The results showed a significant increase in the scope and intensity of QI activities between 2000 and 2009. The results also showed that the scope and intensity of a hospital’s QI activities were associated with the scope and intensity of its competitors’ QI activities in the previous period and its own prior performance. The scope of QI activities in the previous period was not significantly related to the selected hospital performance measures. However, the intensity of QI activities in the previous period showed a significant and positive relationship with the number of inpatients and the turnover of beds.

Conclusion

The study demonstrates that the intensity of QI activities is associated with the external environment and the hospital’s own performance in the previous period. Furthermore, some performance measures are associated with the intensity of the QI activities in the previous period.
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Metadata
Title
Do relationships exist between the scope and intensity of quality improvement activities and hospital operation performance? A 10-year observation in Taiwan
Authors
Kuo-Piao Chung
Tsung-Hsien Yu
Publication date
01-12-2015
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
BMC Health Services Research / Issue 1/2015
Electronic ISSN: 1472-6963
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-015-0961-6

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