... Qualitative techniques Leadership Healthcare systems have turned to a variety of “improvement strategies” aimed at promoting, enabling and encouraging change to happen (Walshe, 2003). Quality improvement has been one such effort to achieve better patient outcomes, better system performance and better...

... to in the discussion. © MCB UP Limited 2003 National Health Service Management Research Qualitative techniques Evidence‐based practice United Kingdom One of the repercussions of evidence‐based medicine may be a challenge to management in terms both of the evidence available...

.... © MCB UP Limited 1997 Doctors Part‐time work Qualitative techniques Stress Women I am a doctor, I am never ill…We mustn’t fail…I must be perfect…Patients expect us to get it right (a young woman GP’s perceptions expressed on You and Yours, Radio 4, May 1994...

.... Suggests that the further study of these issues should become an important part of efforts to create national standards for communication effectiveness in the future. © MCB UP Limited 1996 Internal communications Qualitative techniques Quantitative techniques National Health Service Problem...

... from the culture survey in one of the four directorates in detail to demonstrate the quality of data to be collected using this methodology. Corporate culture Methodology National Health Service Qualitative techniques Quantitative techniques Research United Kingdom This article...

...Virginia Hayden Market research is now being conducted by managers and health care professionals within the NHS. Very little of this research to date has been qualitative, although qualitative techniques would be most appropriate to investigate the perceptions of patients, and to compare...