International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance: Volume 27 Issue 2
Addressing the issues of management and quality
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Insights into physician scheduling: a case study of public hospital departments in Sweden
Marco António Ferreira Rodrigues Nogueira dos Santos, Henrik Kurt Olof Eriksson– The purpose of this paper is to describe current physician scheduling and concomitant opportunities for improvement in public hospital departments in Sweden.
Reporting adverse events at geriatric facilities: Categorization by type of adverse event and function of reporting personnel
Tali Shmueli, Ronit Har Noy, Merav Ben Natan, Joshua Ben-IsraelAdverse events and patient care-related adverse events are a challenging universal problem, among elder residents of geriatric facilities. The aim of this study was to examine…
Error rates in physician dictation: quality assurance and medical record production
Gary C. David, Donald Chand, Balaji Sankaranarayanan– The purpose of the paper is to determine the instance of errors made in physician dictation of medical records.
The hospital survey on patient safety culture in Portuguese hospitals: Instrument validity and reliability
Margarida Eiras, Ana Escoval, Isabel Monteiro Grillo, Carina Silva-FortesQuantitative instruments to assess patient safety culture have been developed recently and a few review articles have been published. Measuring safety culture enables healthcare…
Important quality aspects in the transfer process
Marie Häggström, Kenneth Asplund, Lisbeth KristiansenAdmission to and transfer from an intensive care unit affects not only the patient but also his or her relatives. The authors aimed to investigate relatives' perceptions of…
European registry for quality improvement in cataract surgery
Mats Lundström, Peter Barry, Lucia Brocato, Carol Fitzpatrick, Ype Henry, Paul Rosen, Ulf SteneviA project aimed at creating a multi-national database for cataract and refractive surgery was initiated in 2008. The database was intended for learning and clinical improvement…
Patient choice of a hospital: implications for health policy and management
Ali Mohammad Mosadeghrad– The purpose of this study was to identify the most important influencing factors in choosing a hospital by a patient.
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- Professor Charu Chandra
- Professor Sameer Kumar