International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance: Volume 21 Issue 4
Addressing the issues of management and quality
Table of contents
The role of expectations in patient assessments of hospital care: An example from a university hospital network, Turkey
Coskun Bakar, H. Seval Akgün, A.F. Al AssafThe aim of this paper is to document a study, in which the SERVQUAL scale was used to evaluate hospital services, conducting a preliminary assessment of patient attitudes…
Medical waste management practices in a Southern African hospital
Patience Aseweh Abor, Anton BouwerThe purpose of this paper is to examine the medical waste management practices of a hospital in Southern Africa.
Health‐related quality of life measurement
M.S. Sajid, A. Tonsi, M.K. BaigThe purpose of this article is to discuss the value of health‐related quality of life (HR‐QOL) measurement and describe its development with a few examples.
The same day admissions unit for elective surgery: a case study
Vardhini Vijay, Sarmad Kazzaz, Jonathan RefsonThe purpose of this paper is to examine the activity of a purpose‐built elective surgery unit in a busy district general hospital and the patient journey associated with same day…
Clinical incident reporting: wrong time, wrong place
Mark Renshaw, Craig Vaughan, Mel Ottewill, Alan Ireland, Jane CarmodyThe aim of this paper is to generate a debate regarding the value of incident reporting in the UK.
Consensus‐based policy recommendations for geriatric emergency care
Belinda Parke, Jane McCuskerThe purpose of this paper is to establish policy recommendations to address service and care delivery challenges facing hospital emergency departments (EDs) responding to the…
Anesthesia‐related perioperative adverse events during in‐patient and out‐patient procedures
Karamarie Fecho, Charity G. Moore, Anne T. Lunney, Peter Rock, Edward A. Norfleet, Philip G. BoysenThis paper aims to determine the one‐year incidence of, and risk factors for, perioperative adverse events during in‐patient and out‐patient anesthesia‐assisted procedures.
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- Professor Charu Chandra
- Professor Sameer Kumar