International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance: Volume 22 Issue 2
Addressing the issues of management and quality
Table of contents
Are accreditation surveys reliable?
David Greenfield, Marjorie Pawsey, Justine Naylor, Jeffrey BraithwaiteThe purpose of this article is to test whether healthcare accreditation survey processes are reliable.
Using data mining to segment healthcare markets from patients' preference perspectives
Sandra S. Liu, Jie ChenThis paper aims to provide an example of how to use data mining techniques to identify patient segments regarding preferences for healthcare attributes and their demographic…
Young physicians and the Finnish welfare state
Arttu SaarinenThis article aims to focus on how young physicians in general and different subpopulations, in particular, see the role of the welfare state. The author seeks to compare young…
Personality characteristics of health care satisfaction survey non‐respondents
Thomas G. McLeod, Brian A. Costello, Robert C. Colligan, Ross A. Dierkhising, Timothy J. Beebe, Kenneth P. Offord, G. Richard LockePatient satisfaction surveys are increasingly used to assess the quality of health care delivery. Unfortunately, survey non‐response may compromise generalizability (and…
Does low socioeconomic status affect use of nutritional services by pre‐diabetes patients?
Ronit Endevelt, Orna Baron‐Epel, Tomas Karpati, Anthony David HeymannThis paper's aim is to identify whether community‐level socioeconomic status (SES) predicts: screening test for pre‐diabetes; actual diagnosis of pre‐diabetes; or nutritional…
Patient safety as perceived by Swedish leaders
Karin Pukk Härenstam, Mattias Elg, Carina Svensson, Mats Brommels, John ØvretveitThe purpose of this paper is to survey Swedish healthcare leaders' patient safety awareness, the priority they give to safety issues and their views on suitable safety management…
HIPAA's effects on US healthcare
Sameer Kumar, Anne Henseler, David HaukaasHealth Insurance Portability and Accountability Act implementation in the USA caused waves in the medical world about documentation storage, flow and access. Protecting patients…
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hybridEditors:
- Professor Charu Chandra
- Professor Sameer Kumar