International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance: Volume 30 Issue 3

Editorial

Keith Hurst

Failure mode and effect analysis: improving intensive care unit risk management processes

Roohollah Askari, Milad Shafii, Sima Rafiei, Mohammad Sadegh Abolhassani, Elaheh Salarikhah

Failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) is a practical tool to evaluate risks, discover failures in a proactive manner and propose corrective actions to reduce or eliminate…

Embedding learning from adverse incidents: a UK case study

Cyril Eshareturi, Laura Serrant

This paper reports on a regionally based UK study uncovering what has worked well in learning from adverse incidents in hospitals. The purpose of this paper is to review the…

Improving throughput in a youth mental health service

Dominiek Coates, Deborah Howe

The discrepancy between increasing demand and limited resources in public mental health is putting pressure on services to continuously review their practices and develop…

Nurse staffing levels and outcomes – mining the UK national data sets for insight

Alison Leary, Barbara Tomai, Adrian Swift, Andrew Woodward, Keith Hurst

Despite the generation of mass data by the nursing workforce, determining the impact of the contribution to patient safety remains challenging. Several cross-sectional studies…

Healthcare seeking behaviour among Chinese elderly

Hui Lu, Wei Wang, Ling Xu, Zhenhong Li, Yan Ding, Jian Zhang, Fei Yan

The Chinese population is rapidly ageing before they are rich. The purpose of this paper is to describe healthcare seeking behaviour and the critical factors associated with…

The NICE alcohol misuse standard – evaluating its impact

Alec Knight, Peter Littlejohns, Tara-Lynn Poole, Gillian Leng, Colin Drummond

The purpose of this paper is to explore factors affecting implementing the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) quality standard on alcohol misuse (QS11) and…

Patient non-adherence: an interpretative phenomenological analysis

Vidya Dalvi, Nandakumar Mekoth

While interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) has been used in health psychology research, it has so far not been applied to seek deeper insights into the patients’…

Potential facilitators and barriers to adopting standard treatment guidelines in clinical practice: An Indian context

Sangeeta Sharma, Ajay Pandit, Fauzia Tabassum

The purpose of this paper is to assess medicines information sources accessed by clinicians, if sources differed in theory and practice and to find out the barriers and…