International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance: Volume 14 Issue 6

Addressing the issues of management and quality

Subjects:

Table of contents

Developing network‐based services in the NHS

Maxine Conner

Networks, based upon informal relationships, have ensured that care was delivered to patients for many years. This informal organisation of care, based upon personal…

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Integrating knowledge workers and the organization: the role of IT

Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Michael J. Ginzberg

Agency theory is primarily concerned with the relationship between the principal (employer/purchaser) and the agent (employee/contractor) in the issue of goal‐aligned behavior…

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Redesign of healthcare processes classification to improve the processes of gathering information and data processing on professional and organisational quality in healthcare

Slavica A. Ritonja, Zvonko Hocevar

One of the most important instruments for gathering information and processing data relating to professional and organisational quality in health systems is “healthcare processes…

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An analysis of service quality at a student health center

Cem Canel, Elizabeth A. Anderson Fletcher

This study provides an analysis of the quality of service provided by a university health care center. Students’ expectations and perceptions of the center’s services are…

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Evaluation of a program to improve the prescription‐writing quality in hospital

Patrice François, Dominique Bertrand, Jose Labarere, Magali Fourny, Jean Calop

This paper aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a program designed to improve the quality of drug prescription‐writing at a university hospital in France. Improvement actions…

Cover of International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance

ISSN:

0952-6862

Online date, start – end:

1988

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editors:

  • Professor Charu Chandra
  • Professor Sameer Kumar