International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance: Volume 20 Issue 4
Addressing the issues of management and quality
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The future healthcare and quality
Anastasius MoumtzoglouThe purpose of this paper is to assess the future of healthcare and quality.
Using the Public Sector Scorecard in public health
Max Moullin, John Soady, John Skinner, Charles Price, John Cullen, Christine GilliganThis paper seeks to describe an application of the Public Sector Scorecard (PSS) to Sheffield's Stop Smoking Service.
Motivating Nigerian doctors for improved health care delivery
Florence Olu Ogunrin, Olubunmi Ogunrin, Adebayo AkereleThe purpose of this paper is to examine perceptions of need dissatisfaction and need importance in the two groups of orthodox medical doctors in Nigeria, relating these…
Quality costs and electronic adverse incident recording and reporting system: Is there a missing link?
Kerry Walsh, Jiju AntonyThe purpose of this paper is to examine the usability and potential of incorporating quality costs into an electronic adverse incident recording system within a healthcare sector.
Nurses' perspectives on quality of nursing care: a qualitative study in Iran
Mansoureh Z. Tafreshi, Mehrnoosh Pazargadi, Zhila Abed SaeediQuality of health care is the degree of the most optimal degree of health outcomes by delivery of effective, efficient and cost‐benefit professional health services to people and…
An overview of six sigma applications in healthcare industry
Mehmet Tolga Taner, Bülent Sezen, Jiju AntonyDelays, measurement and medical errors and variability often undermine the delivery of safe, effective patient care. However, it is possible to minimize them by applying…
Timing of antibiotics in CAP
Mohammad Reza Shariatzadeh, Thomas J. MarrieTimely administration of antimicrobials in patients with community‐acquired pneumonia is now a standard of care. The purpose of this paper is to present a large observational…
Processes and outcomes for acute myocardial infarction patients
Jean‐Christophe Luthi, William M. McClellan, W. Dana Flanders, Stephen R. Pitts, Bernard BurnandThe purpose of this paper is to determine whether process quality indicators for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) one associated with outcome indicators (hospital mortality and…
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hybridEditors:
- Professor Charu Chandra
- Professor Sameer Kumar