International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance: Volume 12 Issue 1
Addressing the issues of management and quality
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Managing by numbers: using outcome measures in the NHS
Sean McCartney, Reva Berman BrownThe paper explores the literature concerning outcome measures used in health services. The need to measure outcomes subsequent to encounters with health services has been…
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Survival during and after hospitalization: a medical record linkage
Boo Svartbo, Lars Olov Bygren, Thomas Gunnarsson, Lars Steen, Martin RibeIn Sweden, hospital stays, deaths, sick‐ listings and censuses have long been stored on electronic media. The purpose of the study was to apply post‐hospital survival measures to…
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An analytical approach to determining the competitive advantage of TQM in health care
Mahmoud M. Yasin, Jafar AlaviThe utilization of total quality management (TQM) is advocated by some experts, as a partial remedy to the ills of the health care industry. However, some healthcare…
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Medicare risk contracting: analyzing managed care for the aging population in the USA
Patrick Asubonteng Rivers, Charles A. Asubonteng, Minnette Bumpus, George MunchusThis paper focuses on Medicare risk contracting in the USA. The issue of the current method of reimbursement versus Medicare risk contracting is explored. Risk sharing and payment…
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0952-6862Online date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Professor Charu Chandra
- Professor Sameer Kumar