... healthcare services and accreditation programs tend to improve healthcare accessibility and positive health outcomes for marginalized communities. These findings indicate that while accreditation can serve as a quality improvement mechanism, its ability to reduce healthcare disparities depends on the local...

...Stijn Slootmans; Peter Van Bogaert; Lieve Peremans; Erik Franck Purpose This paper explores nurses’ and nurse managers’ perceptions of crucial contextual factors and competencies that facilitate or hinder quality improvement projects in acute hospital settings. Design/methodology/approach...

...Paula Rowland; Melissa F. Lan; Cecilia Wan; Laura Pozzobon Purpose Despite robust quality improvement efforts in healthcare, learning from patient safety incidents remains difficult. Our study explores counter-vailing powers shaping learning processes and possibilities in healthcare organizations...

... the data analysis more feasible. © Emerald Publishing Limited 2024 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Inpatient satisfaction Healthcare services Quality improvement Public hospital Ethiopia Developing country Patient satisfaction is strongly associated...

... in integrated care. Integrated care Organizational learning Inter-organizational learning Organizational network architecture Quality improvement The increasing number of elderly patients with multiple illnesses is recognized as an essential future challenge for healthcare throughout...

... during 2019–2020 in Hywel Dda University Health Board located in South West Wales, UK. The decision to offer the programme emerged from the Health Board's Quality Improvement Framework and there appeared to have been a smooth shift from the strategy, through policy, to implementation. The QIC involved...

... at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode Healthcare provision models Patient experience PREMs Nursing care models Excellence in user experience Quality improvement Services are, by their nature, always experienced (Carbone and Haeckel, 1994), including healthcare...

... Limited Licensed re-use rights only Hospital accreditation Quality improvement Patient safety Jordan Iran Saudi Arabia The current approach to hospital accreditation, implemented since 2012, was inspired by the challenges of the previous evaluation system in providing a comprehensive...

... methods Patient safety Safety culture Quality improvement Deliberative dialogue Restorative research methods CAPES Foundation, Ministry of Education of Brazil BEX 9230/14-9 Patient safety is a complex challenge for health systems worldwide that involves reducing the risk...

.... Conditional average treatment effects Cost/benefit analysis Distributional cost-effectiveness analysis Equity Inequality Randomised controlled trials Quality improvement Quality indicators Quasi experimental designs Socioeconomic factors Small-area analysis Subgroup analysis Healthcare...

... collaborative, quality improvement (NPG) approaches would supplement existing performance management (NPM) practices, to create a superior synthesis. When this formal approach was blocked, they adopted an approach based on informal persuasion of local organisational actors that quality...

... to RPIW preparation, implementation and sustainability. Lean Rapid Process Improvement Workshop Quality Improvement Emotion This methodological application of Lean principles through RPIWs and associated tools, such a process mapping, is evident in healthcare research; most commonly...

... 2020 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Hospital patient flow improvement Quality improvement Frontline professionals' involvement Middle managers' involvement Top managers' involvement The increasing demand...

... of studies indicating that care ought to be oriented toward and incorporate the views and experiences of patients (Luxford et al., 2011 ; Bate and Robert, 2006). At the heart of this is the notion that patient and family perspectives assist quality improvement and patient safety efforts...

...Stuart Barson; Robin Gauld; Jonathon Gray; Goran Henriks; Christina Krause; Peter Lachman; Lynne Maher; M. Rashad Massoud; Lee Mathias; Mike Wagner; Luis Villa Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify five quality improvement initiatives for healthcare system leaders, produced...

... be considered satisfactory, as patient satisfaction measures have been developed with insufficient evidence of their psychometric properties. Quality improvement Qualitative methods Netnography Internet communities Patient dissatisfaction Although traditionally the quality of health care has...

... positive effects, such as a commitment to quality improvement initiatives or a better performance on different indicators (Joshi and Hines, 2006 ; Vaughn et al., 2006 ; Lockee, 2009 ; Jha and Epstein, 2010). All participants but one reported their organizational affiliation, the number...

... that strengthens the system. At a leading Canadian academic pediatric rehabilitation hospital, over 90 percent of clinicians viewed Schwartz Rounds™ (SR) as a hospital priority, resulting in its formal implementation as a quality improvement initiative. The purpose of this paper is to describe how the hospital...

... with quality improvement. Originality/value This paper is a challenge to the orthodox way of viewing healthcare organisations, and improvement processes within them, as reliant on control rather than empowerment. An alternative is to actively include the agency, sense-making capacity and humanity of those...

... Improvement Scotland (HIS) and the Regulatory and Quality Improvement Authority (RQIA) in Northern Ireland. Hospital-based care is the main area of focus for this paper, since it accounts for the majority of healthcare expenditure in the UK and all four countries oversee this healthcare area. The study...