International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance: Volume 16 Issue 4
Addressing the issues of management and quality
Table of contents
Capacity planning – modelling unplanned admissions in the UK NHS
Steve MoorePresents a model designed to explore the stochastic nature of non‐elective admissions. Using historic data taken from the patient administration system of a large district general…
Measuring health service satisfaction: female inmates
Jill Guthrie, Tony Butler, Anne SeftonThis study examines female inmates’ utilisation of and satisfaction with provision of health services, based on data from the 1996 New South Wales (Australia) Inmate Health…
Diagnosing culture in health‐care organizations using critical incidents
Larry A. Mallak, David M. Lyth, Suzan D. Olson, Susan M. Ulshafer, Frank J. SardoneThe critical incident technique (CIT) provides a means to produce rich cultural information from organizational members in an effort to describe the organization’s culture. Very…
Diagnostic analysis based on ROC curves: theory and applications in medicine
Ana Cristina Braga, Pedro OliveiraReceiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis is a powerful tool to measure and specify the problems with diagnostic performance in medicine. Describes this analysis and the…
Professional self‐regulation in the context of clinical governance
Keith HurstThis article explores professional self‐regulation in the context of clinical governance. It begins by explaining clinical governance’s origins before setting out a framework in…
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hybridEditors:
- Professor Charu Chandra
- Professor Sameer Kumar