International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance: Volume 25 Issue 2
Addressing the issues of management and quality
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Perceptions of changes in practice following peer review in the National Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Resources and Outcomes Project
Carol Rivas, Stephanie Taylor, Stephen Abbott, Aileen Clarke, Chris Griffiths, C. Michael Roberts, Robert StoneThe purpose of this paper is to examine perceptions of local service change and concepts of change amongst participants in a UK nationwide randomised controlled trial of informal…
A pilot study of satisfaction in oncology nursing care: an indirect predictor of quality of care
Esther Uña Cidón, Fernando Cuadrillero Martín, Milagros Hijas Villaizán, Francisco López LaraAlthough “satisfaction” is not easy to define, excellence in health care is impossible without professional/patient satisfaction, so this paper aims to report on a pilot study…
Context challenges the champion: improving hip fracture care in a Swedish university hospital
Susanne Löfgren, Johan Hansson, John Øvretveit, Mats BrommelsThe purpose of this paper is to describe and explain a clinician‐led improvement of a hip fracture care process in a university hospital, and to assess the results and factors…
Estimating ICU bed capacity using discrete event simulation
Zhecheng Zhu, Bee Hoon Hen, Kiok Liang TeowThe intensive care unit (ICU) in a hospital caters for critically ill patients. The number of the ICU beds has a direct impact on many aspects of hospital performance. Lack of the…
Follow‐up in head and neck cancer: patients' perspective
Aaron Trinidade, Prasad Kothari, Zenon Andreou, Richard J.D. Hewitt, Paul O'FlynnThe purpose of this paper is to determine head and neck cancer patients' perspective of their follow‐up regime and to suggest ways in which these perspectives can be incorporated…
Public health laboratory quality management in a developing country
Khwanjai Wangkahat, Somboon Nookhai, Vallerut PobkeereeThe article aims to give an overview of the system of public health laboratory quality management in Thailand and to produce a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats…
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hybridEditors:
- Professor Charu Chandra
- Professor Sameer Kumar