...Anna V. Chatzi; Konstantinos A. Tasias Purpose Communication has long been identified as an integral element that defines healthcare's quality operations and patient safety. This study focuses on the patient and healthcare staff interaction during COVID-19 and the investigation of communication...

...Anna V. Chatzi; Kyriakos I. Kourousis Purpose Healthcare has undergone multiple phases in gaining understanding, accepting and implementing quality and safety, with the last 3 decades being crucial and decisive in making progress. During that time, safety has always been quoted along with quality...

... 2022 27 10 2022 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2022 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Health care quality Health policy Statistics Quality Quantitative research Public health regulations The pharmaceutical industry impacts the health...

...Steven Wilson Purpose This paper aims to describe the approach taken in National Health Service Scotland to sharing information between health and care oversight bodies and the development of an analytical framework to monitor and identify early signals of serious problems in the quality...

...Mark J. Avery; Allan W. Cripps; Gary D. Rogers Purpose This study explores key governance, leadership and management activities that have impact on quality, risk and safety within Australian healthcare organisations. Design/methodology/approach Current non-executive directors (n = 12...

... during a one-year Norwegian longitudinal intervention study following managers in nursing homes and homecare services in their daily quality and safety work. They use this material to propose a model of management and resilience. Findings The authors consider managerial strategies to support...

... care act Insurance Access Cost Quality Diabetes National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease 5T3DK007431 K24DK093699 Diabetes is a metabolic disease characterized by high blood sugar that affects approximately 34.2 million Americans (Centers for Disease Contr...

... loss attributed to nonoccupational loud noise (Shroff and Jung, 2020). The review section will lead with these and then relate the remaining five articles to quality improvements (QIs) in health and how these affect the public. Smoking cessation is a classic public health issue that continues...

... should be guided by evidence-based CPG. On the other hand, critical authors of EBM methodology argue that various interests undermine the quality of evidence and reliability of CPG recommendations. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate patient related outcomes of CPG implementation, in light of EBM...

... of lean, it is even harder to specify why or how it should be implemented. Despite this, it was clear that the reasons for implementing lean were about improving quality and the patient experience while reducing waste. When discussing implementation, reports indicated an understanding that introducing...

...Christian Gadolin Purpose It is often argued that Lean enables the challenges of contemporary healthcare delivery to be tackled in relation to consistently high-quality care, while utilizing the full potential of available resources. Nevertheless, system-wide implementations of Lean...

...Emmanuel Anongeba Anaba; Aaron Asibi Abuosi Purpose Adolescents are more exposed to risky health behaviors. However, many adolescents do not seek health care due to the poor quality of care. The purpose of this paper is to assess health care quality in adolescent clinics in Tema, a suburb of Ghana...

... Fracture Database. These patients often have unstable co-morbidities and poor physiological reserve, and frequently require stabilisation in the peri-operative period. Clinical governance Quality Health care quality Clinical leadership and culture Surgery Management of clinical performance...

...Peter O’Meara; Gary Wingrove; Michael McKeage Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyse two approaches to paramedic service clinical governance and quality management from the perspective of two groups of paramedics and paramedic managers working in North America. Design...

... care expenditure for patients, while improving the efficiency and quality of hospital services. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impact of the HSEP on the performance of 15 hospitals affiliated with Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences (KUMS), located in the western region of Iran...

...Virginia Minogue; Bill Wells Purpose Research suggests that 85 per cent of health research is avoidably wasted. The research and development management community has an important role in the research process and can contribute to improving the quality and value of research. Al-Shahi Salman et...

...-term health implications may be. Whilst attention in Mexican research has focused upon the quality of services and medical habitus, understanding of the broader social ecology of obstetric violence and its impact on female sexuality and reproductive health remains lacking. Despite 25 years...

.... It is valuable to have a framework of clinical governance for such circumstances that enables a shared assurance of quality. To achieve these aims, the purpose of this paper is to present a clinical governance matrix framework developed by the author’s experiences in clinical practice, in service change...

... with the goal of identifying specific mechanisms to improve health care quality, outcomes, and affordability. These members are appointed by the Washington State Governor and represent public health care purchasers for Washington State, private health care purchasers (employers and union trusts), health plans...

...Lily Yarney; Roger Ayimbillah Atinga Purpose Studies have examined strategies implemented to strengthen quality of emergency care in healthcare provider institutions in Ghana. But few studies have focused on what determines quality of emergency care from the patient’s perspective. The purpose...