International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance: Volume 2 Issue 1

Addressing the issues of management and quality

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Table of contents

Erratum

This article has been withdrawn as it was published elsewhere and accidentally duplicated. The original article can be seen here: 10.1108/eb054826. When citing the article, please…

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The Perils of Writing Wrongs

Arthur Kaufman

The author proves that authors and potential authors can encounter many reactions to their work; but the value in writing is having to think before putting pen to paper.

Scandinavian Model Health Care Programmes ‐ A Cousin of Quality Assurance

Hannu Vuori

To what extent can medical care be standardised for certain treatments? It is argued that it can and should be, with illustrations of some model health care programmes in…

Quality Assurance of Health Care: The Case of Hernia Mortality

T. Angelus, M. Kecskemeti, G. Arato

The mortality rate attributed to hernias in 24 European countries in the last decades are analysed in the interest of quality assurance in health care. Ranking countries according…

A Consumer Survey of two Psychiatric Day Hospitals

Neil Rothwell, Debra Lorimer, Alasdair A. McKechnie

The survey asked attenders at two day hospitals to rate how helpful they found different components of their therapeutic programme. One of the day hospitals was established for…

Action Learning for Quality Assurance ‐ A Diary: Part 2

Wynn Griffiths, Robin Gourlay

The early struggles of a multidisciplinary group in developing guidelines for a District Health Authority are described.

Cover of International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance

ISSN:

0952-6862

Online date, start – end:

1988

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editors:

  • Professor Charu Chandra
  • Professor Sameer Kumar