...Alec Knight; Peter Littlejohns; Tara-Lynn Poole; Gillian Leng; Colin Drummond Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore factors affecting implementing the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) quality standard on alcohol misuse (QS11) and barriers and facilitators to its...

... provided PN preparation service through TPN units within hospital pharmacies. Functional NSTs did not exist in any of these hospitals. All TPN units used paper-based standard PN order forms for requesting PN. The content of PN order forms and PN formulas labeling information were inconsistent across...

... the standard required adaptation and novel interpretation. Additionally, ISO 10002:2004 (Clause 7) was used to design the feedback handling activities. A promise initially chosen for development turned out to be difficult to implement, experience that helped in selecting and developing the final promise...

... with standards. The program consisted of specific activities. Training and workshops to update laboratory staffs' quality management knowledge were organized. Staff in each laboratory performed a self‐assessment using a standard check‐list to evaluate ten laboratory management areas. Chiang Rai Regional Medical...

... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 --> Health services Standards Governance United Kingdom Keywords: Health services, Standards, Governance, United Kingdom Inspections, targets, standards, and mandatory reporting can make a difference to the quality...

...Keith Hurst; Elizabeth Murray; Rodney McAdam Purpose This article compares and contrasts the main quality standards in the highly regulated pharmaceutical industry with specific focus on Good Clinical Practice (GCP), the standard for designing, conducting, recording and reporting clinical trials...

... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 --> Demographics Standards Middle East and Africa Healthcare reforms and rapid demographic change in the region puts spotlights on private sector health care providers Keywords: Demographics, Standards Rapid reforms...

... A further eight hospitals have been awarded certificates in terms of COHSASA’s Graded Accreditation Programme, which means that, although they have not achieved accreditation, they have made substantial progress towards meeting standards and, as such, are being recognised for this improvement...

...O. Groene; S.J. Jorgensen; A.M. Fugleholm; L. Møller; M. Garcia‐Barbero Purpose To describe the process of development of standards for health promotion in hospitals, including pilot study, method and results. Design/methodology/approach A set of standards for health promotion in hospitals...

... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 --> Health services Standards Europe Europe, Middle East and Africa Europe - Joint Commission International branches out in Europe The Joint Commission International (JCI) opened a European office on February 3, 2005...

... Publishing Limited 2004 Research Clinical governance Standards Quality assurance United Kingdom Researchers wishing to conduct investigations involving human participants or human materials in hospital settings in the UK must conform to local National Health Service (NHS) hospital...

... and performance of the large numbers of allied health‐care workers (rehabilitation therapists, dietitians, laboratory technologists, etc.). This study focused on how Western‐trained allied health‐care professionals, working in Saudi Arabia, perceived their standards of practice to be affected by working abroad...

... The workshops, for up to 20 people, bring together risk managers, directors,doctors, consultants and nursing staff to look at where their organisation is in terms of a particular standard and how the position can be improved. IML's Question Wizard software, working within Microsoft PowerPoint...

... the Government commending the use of the Model are given. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Quality Standards Self‐assessment Kaizen National Health Service United Kingdom The European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) fully appreciates the dynamic environment in which all organisations...

... efficiency Service levels Standards Service‐level agreements (SLAs) are a formally defined and negotiated agreement of the service to be provided to the client or customer by the service provider based on an understanding of both sides’ needs and responsibilities. The “working through...

... on quality control and quality assurance generally are heavily based on the ISO 9000 standards. In The Netherlands the PACE‐standards have been deduced from the ISO 9000 standards for application in hospitals. In this paper it has been argued that in many cases a more situational approach will be preferable...

... members of staff which encourages multidisciplinary links between departments. In order to control the system, access is such that all documents can be viewed, but write access is only available to the quality coordinator. Hospitals ISO 9000 Quality Standards Following a radiotherapy...

..., dissatisfaction is also expressed with the physical environment. Argues that the situation can only be remedied, usually, by a large injection of cash – an unlikely scenario. Hospitals National Health Service Perceptions Questionnaires Service quality Standards It has been said that the USA...

...Norma V. Raynes A method of involving users and providers in residential care for older people was used to develop standards of care and outcome indicators. The standards were prioritized using the paired comparison technique. Describes the method and the outcomes of the processes. These include 28...

... health and safety Older people Quality Standards United Kingdom A 100 per cent response rate to the questionnaire was achieved, though not every question contained in each questionnaire was answered. The age range of residents was 47‐106 years old (mode 82 years) and 78 per cent were...