International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance: Volume 28 Issue 6

Does electronic medication reconciliation at hospital discharge decrease prescription medication errors?

Geneve M. Allison, Bernard Weigel, Christina Holcroft

Medication errors are an important patient safety issue. Electronic medication reconciliation is a system designed to correct medication discrepancies at transitions in…

Quantitative comparisons of urgent care service providers

Hong Qin, Gayle L. Prybutok, Victor R. Prybutok, Bin Wang

The purpose of this paper is to develop, validate, and use a survey instrument to measure and compare the perceived quality of three types of US urgent care (UC) service…

Patient safety culture: finding meaning in patient experiences

Andrea C. Bishop, Brianna R. Cregan

The purpose of this paper is to determine what patient and family stories can tell us about patient safety culture within health care organizations and how patients experience…

Introducing modern technology to promote transparency in health services

Mohammad Shafiqul Islam

Quantitative indicators show that Bangladeshi maternal and child healthcare is progressing satisfactorily. However, healthcare quality is still inadequate. It is hypothesised that…

Quality of Big Data in health care

Sreenivas R. Sukumar, Ramachandran Natarajan, Regina K. Ferrell

The current trend in Big Data analytics and in particular health information technology is toward building sophisticated models, methods and tools for business, operational and…

Resource utilization in surgery after the revision of surgical fee schedule in Japan

Yoshinori Nakata, Tatsuya Yoshimura, Yuichi Watanabe, Hiroshi Otake, Giichiro Oiso, Tomohiro Sawa

– The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the current surgical reimbursement system in Japan reflects resource utilization after the revision of fee schedule in 2014.

Big Data, big stories and the stones in our shoes – how neglecting the foundations can trip us up

Ian Callanan