International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance: Volume 13 Issue 7

Addressing the issues of management and quality

Subjects:

Table of contents

A study of patients’ expectations and satisfaction in Singapore hospitals

Puay Cheng Lim, Nelson K.H. Tang

In today’s highly competitive healthcare environment, hospitals increasingly realise the need to focus on service quality as a means to improve their competitive position…

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The assessment of quality in medical diagnostic tests: a comparison of ROC/Youden and Taguchi methods

Tolga Taner, Jiju Antony

Diagnostic tests are widely used in many areas of modern technological society, but they are of particular importance in medicine, where early and accurate diagnosis can decrease…

Responding to diversity: the Primary Care Group in the NHS

Stephen Willcocks, Antony Conway

The paper attempts to examine the development of Primary Care Groups in the NHS, utilising a conceptual framework taken from relationship marketing. In particular, it looks at a…

The theory and methodology of provider profiling

Jessie L. Tucker

Physician profiling is the comparison of physician practice patterns to determine the existence and effects of significant differences in outcomes. To optimize care quality, these…

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ISSN:

0952-6862

Online date, start – end:

1988

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editors:

  • Professor Charu Chandra
  • Professor Sameer Kumar