International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance: Volume 22 Issue 3
Addressing the issues of management and quality
Table of contents
An assessment of quality costs within electronic adverse incident reporting and recording systems: A case study
Kerry Walsh, Jiju AntonyThere are three main objectives of the research presented in this paper: to examine the challenges of using an electronic adverse incident recording and reporting system; to…
Job satisfaction of physicians in Russia
Patrick O'Leary, Natalia Wharton, Thomas QuinlanThe purpose of this paper is to determine the relationship between job characteristics and job satisfaction amongst physicians in Russia.
Creating patient value in glaucoma care: applying quality costing and care delivery value chain approaches: A five‐year case study in the Rotterdam Eye Hospital
Dirk F. de Korne, Kees (J.C.A.) Sol, Thomas Custers, Esther van Sprundel, B. Martin van Ineveld, Hans G. Lemij, Niek S. KlazingaThe purpose of this paper is to explore in a specific hospital care process the applicability in practice of the theories of quality costing and value chains.
An application of Six Sigma methodology to turnover intentions in health care
Mehmet Tolga Taner, Bulent SezenThe purpose of this study is to show how the principles of Six Sigma can be applied to the high turnover problem of doctors in medical emergency services and paramedic backup.
Assessment of quality of midwifery care in labour and delivery wards of selected Kordestan Medical Science University hospitals
Masoumeh Simbar, Farideh Ghafari, Shahnaz Tork Zahrani, Hamid Alavi MajdQuality improvement of reproductive health care has been announced as one of five global strategies to accelerate progress toward reproductive health goals. The World Health…
Audit of an inpatient liaison psychiatry consultation service
John Lyne, Michelle Hill, Patricia Burke, Martina RyanThe purpose of this paper is to examine an audit that was performed of all patients referred to a liaison psychiatry inpatient consultation service which sought to establish a…
Taking patients' voices into account within quality systems: a comparative study
Yahui Sophie HsiehThis study aims to explore whether and how patient voices had been taken into account within quality management systems in Hospital A in Britain and Hospital B in Taiwan.
Cross‐generational comparison of dispensed pharmacotherapy for depression
Maida J. Sewitch, Brian Bexton, Elham Rahme, Sophie Galarneau, Régis BlaisThe purpose of this paper is to compare predictors of receipt of recommended first‐line pharmacotherapy in three generational cohorts of patients with new episode depression.
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hybridEditors:
- Professor Charu Chandra
- Professor Sameer Kumar