International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance: Volume 31 Issue 1

Fall prevention strategy in an emergency department

Mwali Muray, Charles H. Bélanger, Jamil Razmak

The purpose of this paper is to document the need for implementing a fall prevention strategy in an emergency department (ED). The paper also spells out the research process that…

Communicating medication risk to cardiovascular patients in Qatar

Kerry Wilbur, Arwa Sahal, Dina Elgaily

Patient safety is gaining prominence in health professional curricula. Patient safety must be complemented by teaching and skill development in practice settings. The purpose of…

Participatory design of healthcare technology with children

Tara Sims

There are many frameworks and methods for involving children in design research. Human-Computer Interaction provides rich methods for involving children when designing…

Factors influencing early stage healthcare-academia partnerships

Håkan Uvhagen, Mia von Knorring, Henna Hasson, John Øvretveit, Johan Hansson

The purpose of this paper is to explore factors influencing early implementation and intermediate outcomes of a healthcare-academia partnership in a primary healthcare setting.

Residents’ educational attainment and preventive care utilization in China

Yen-Han Lee, Timothy Chiang, Ching-Ti Liu

China launched a comprehensive health reform in 2009 to improve healthcare quality. Because preventive care utilization in China has not been frequently discussed, the purpose of…

Context-based patient choice management in healthcare

An Chen, Paul Martin Lillrank, Henni Tenhunen, Antti Peltokorpi, Paulus Torkki, Seppo Heinonen, Vedran Stefanovic

In healthcare, there is limited knowledge of and experience with patient choice management. The purpose of this paper is to focus on patient choice, apply and test…

Socio-economic inequalities in health services utilization: a cross-sectional study

Mohammad Ranjbar Ezzatabadi, Ameneh Khosravi, Mohammad Amin Bahrami, Sima Rafiei

Developing country workers mainly face important challenges when examining equality in health services utilization among the population and identifying influential factors. The…

Patient-perceived hospital service quality: an empirical assessment

Yogesh P. Pai, Satyanarayana T. Chary, Rashmi Yogesh Pai

The purpose of this paper is to appraise Pai and Chary’s (2016) conceptual framework for measuring patient-perceived hospital service quality (HSQ).