International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance: Volume 6 Issue 4
Addressing the issues of management and quality
Table of contents
Towards Integrative Audit: A Partnership for Quality
Tracey Sharp, Joan KilvingtonOutlines the gradual process which led to the development of the Sunderland Integrative Audit System. Centred around the Patient′s Charter rights and standards, the various…
QUDOS: A Quality Assurance System for Health Care
John Smith, Malcolm WainDescribes a system of quality assurance for use by either purchasers or providers of health care services. The system has been in operation since 1991 and is compatible with…
Quality Assurance and Internal Organizational Communications
Dennis Tourish, Owen HargieReviews the relationship between internal communication in organizations and the effective delivery of service. Illustrates how quality internal communications can reduce the…
Quality Assurance: A Prescription for Success
Steve Connor, Tim CrowleyProvides a theoretical and practical overview of one organization′s total quality management initiative. Concentrates particularly on the pursuit and achievement of registration…
Devising a Multidisciplinary Audit Tool
Louise Bell, Barbara Morris, Reva Berman BrownDiscusses the audit processes in health care from the existing perspectives and argues the need to extend the current uni‐dimensional approaches which include medical, clinical…
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0952-6862Online date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Professor Charu Chandra
- Professor Sameer Kumar