... currently performed in the USA are performed on an ambulatory basis (Hollingsworth et al., 2014). Though ERAS protocols remain effective in improving many immediate postsurgical outcome measures such as LOS, they often do not extend to the care environment at the patient’s home. Efforts to improve...

...Mohammadkarim Bahadori; Ehsan Teymourzadeh; Ramin Ravangard; Mohammad Saadati Purpose The purpose of this paper is to determine accreditation effects on Iranian military hospital health service quality through nurses’ viewpoints. Design/methodology/approach The paper is a cross-sectional...

...Roohollah Askari; Milad Shafii; Sima Rafiei; Mohammad Sadegh Abolhassani; Elaheh Salarikhah Purpose Failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) is a practical tool to evaluate risks, discover failures in a proactive manner and propose corrective actions to reduce or eliminate potential risks...

... institutions towards increasing access to quality HC and financing. Dr Augustine Adomah-Afari can be contacted at: augustineafari@yahoo.co.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Efficiency Risk management Quality health care Effectiveness Patient perception Finance/economics...

...Carol Lesley Davies; Paul Walley Clinicians have the important quality assurance task of implementing changes to treatments offered, on the basis of clinical effectiveness. Problems seem to arise when evidence emerges, casting doubt on the effectiveness of existing treatments, that require services...

...C. Davies; G. Grimshaw; M. Kendall; A. Szczepura; C. Griffin; V. Toescu Objective and study design: to assess quality of a quick and early diagnosis route (QED) by determining effectiveness and cost‐ effectiveness of five clinics compared with three conventional outpatient clinics...

... and Complications Trial Research Group, “ The effect of intensive treatment of diabetes on the development and progression of long term complications in insulin‐dependent diabetes mellitus ”, New England Journal of Medicine , Vol. 329 , 1993 , pp. 977 ‐ 86 . 14 . Bloomfield , S. and Farquhar...

... and effective communication with patients can improve the effectiveness of care and the efficiency with which it is delivered. © MCB UP Limited 1995 Communications Effectiveness Health care Improvement Information management Literature National Health Service The process described above...