International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance: Volume 33 Issue 2

Shift schedule realignment and patient safety culture

Made Indra Wijaya, Abd Rahim Mohamad, Muhammad Hafizurrachman

The purpose of this paper is to assess the association between shift schedule realignment and patient safety culture.

Measuring the continuous quality improvement orientation of medical education programs : A validity study of the Baldrige “Are We Making Progress” questionnaire

Danielle Blouin, Everett V. Smith

There is a growing interest in applying continuous quality improvement (CQI) methodologies and tools to medical education contexts. One such tool, the “Are We Making Progress”…

Maternal health outcomes of socially marginalized groups in India

Arvind Kumar Yadav, Pabitra Kumar Jena

The present study delves into the health inequalities between the two most socially deprived groups namely Scheduled Tribes (STs) and Scheduled Castes (SCs) in rural India.

Resource evaluation framework for total knee arthroplasty

Laura Ikuma, Isabelina Nahmens, Amani Ahmad, Yasaswi Gudipudi, Vinod Dasa

This article describes a framework for evaluating efficiency of OR procedures incorporating time measurement, personnel activity, and resource utilization using traditional…

Preventing skin staining: an effective iron infusion protocol

Clare Margaret Crowley, Gabriela McMahon, Joanna Desmond, Mendinaro Imcha

To implement a safe and effective intravenous iron infusion protocol to prevent skin staining.

Reduction of central-line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) in resource limited, nonintensive care unit (ICU) settings

Kok Wei Poh, Cheng Huong Ngan, Ji Yin Wong, Tiang Koi Ng, Nadiah Mohd Noor

There was limited study available on successful intervention for central-line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) done at nonintensive care unit (ICU) and resources-limited…

Using knowledge discovery through data mining to gain intelligence from routinely collected incident reporting in an acute English hospital

Alison Leary, Robert Cook, Sarahjane Jones, Mark Radford, Judtih Smith, Malcolm Gough, Geoffrey Punshon

Incident reporting systems are commonly deployed in healthcare but resulting datasets are largely warehoused. This study explores if intelligence from such datasets could be used…