International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance: Volume 1 Issue 1
Addressing the issues of management and quality
Table of contents
Introducing Quality Assurance — An Exercise in Audacity
Hannu VuoriIntroducing quality assurance programmes means change. The author examines what may have to change and suggests a change strategy based on the idea of an equation. He points out…
Health Care Performance and Accountability
J. DummerThe need and importance of setting performance standards is described; together with the problem of many varied initiatives being taken in an uncoordinated fashion. The role of…
Developing Nursing: The Contribution to Quality
Stephen G. WrightThe part played by quality assurance and the setting of standards in enhancing the motivation of nurses is described. The involvement of nurses themselves in developing…
Blood Transfusion Policy in Dutch Hospitals
J.J.E. van Everdingen, N.S. Klazinga, A.F. CasparieThree years after a consensus development conference on blood transfusion policy in the Netherlands, its effect on the quality of care was evaluated. In 16 out of 22 bloodbanks…
Health Care Quality Assurance Terminology
Seamus HealyThe theory and practice of Quality Assurance in Health is drawn from and involves many disciplines and professions. The dangers of imprecisions in the use of terms can lead to…
ISSN:
0952-6862Online date, start – end:
1988Copyright Holder:
Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Professor Charu Chandra
- Professor Sameer Kumar