International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance: Volume 10 Issue 3
Addressing the issues of management and quality
Table of contents
The nature and value of small and community hospital accreditation
Keith HurstDiscusses the characteristics of health care accreditation schemes, especially the implications of their voluntary status. Singles out the Trent small hospital accreditation…
Non‐medical predictors of quality of care of hypertension in elderly patients
Rachel FleishmanDescribes a study designed to develop instruments for examining the quality of routine care of hypertension among the elderly and, using non‐medical predictors of quality ‐ such…
Measuring technical efficiency of output quality in intensive care units
Jaume Puig JunoyPresents some examples of the implications derived from imposing the objective of maximizing social welfare, subject to limited resources, on ethical care patients management in…
Costs of the treatment of leg ulcers: initiating a quality assurance process
Tomas Faresjö, Thomas Frödin, Carin Vahlquist, Maria Klevbrand, Johan Elfström, Danuta Leszniewska, Alice LarssonReports on a study which aimed to initiate a quality assurance process among health care personnel in Sweden. An epidemiological survey concerning treatment of leg ulcers in a…
The role of expectations in the perception of health care quality: developing a conceptual model
Tony Conway, Stephen WillcocksProposes a conceptual model of quality which incorporates an expectation framework. The model was prompted by a related empirical study examining effectiveness in a health care…
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Professor Charu Chandra
- Professor Sameer Kumar