International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance: Volume 26 Issue 6
Addressing the issues of management and quality
Table of contents
Improving laboratory data entry quality using Six Sigma
Ali Elbireer, Julie Le Chasseur, Brooks JacksonThe Uganda Makerere University provides clinical laboratory support to over 70 clients in Uganda. With increased volume, manual data entry errors have steadily increased…
Quality of pathology services: new strategic directions required
Godfrey IsouardThe purpose of this paper is to discuss the challenges faced in Australia to maintain and sustain quality in pathology services, and present new strategic directions to address…
How satisfied are Portuguese citizens with public hospitals' service?
Jaime R.S. FonsecaThe purpose of this paper is to empirically test emergency department patients' service quality perceptions by measuring their satisfaction.
Qualitative analysis of factors leading to clinical incidents
Matthew D. Smith, Julian D. Birch, Mark Renshaw, Melanie OttewillThe purpose of this paper is to evaluate the common themes leading or contributing to clinical incidents in a UK teaching hospital.
Assessment of knowledge, attitude and practices among healthcare workers in a tertiary care hospital on needle stick injury
Aradhana Bhargava, Bibhabati Mishra, Archana Thakur, Vinita Dogra, Poonam Loomba, Sonal GuptaThe study aims to assess healthcare workers' needle‐stick injury (NSI) knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP).
Temporal artery biopsy: are we doing it right?
Andrew Pieri, Rob Milligan, Vaidehi Hegde, Colm HennessyTemporal artery biopsy (TAB) is the gold standard for diagnosing temporal arteritis; however, sensitivity is relatively poor (30‐40 per cent). The British Society of Rheumatology…
New graduate occupational therapists' perceptions of near‐misses and mistakes in the workplace
Michele Clark, Marion Gray, Jane MooneyThe purpose of this paper is to explore the perceptions of near‐misses and mistakes among new graduate occupational therapists from Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand (NZ), and…
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- Professor Charu Chandra
- Professor Sameer Kumar