International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance: Volume 31 Issue 1
Addressing the issues of management and quality
Table of contents
Fall prevention strategy in an emergency department
Mwali Muray, Charles H. Bélanger, Jamil RazmakThe purpose of this paper is to document the need for implementing a fall prevention strategy in an emergency department (ED). The paper also spells out the research process that…
Communicating medication risk to cardiovascular patients in Qatar
Kerry Wilbur, Arwa Sahal, Dina ElgailyPatient safety is gaining prominence in health professional curricula. Patient safety must be complemented by teaching and skill development in practice settings. The purpose of…
Participatory design of healthcare technology with children
Tara SimsThere are many frameworks and methods for involving children in design research. Human-Computer Interaction provides rich methods for involving children when designing…
Factors influencing early stage healthcare-academia partnerships
Håkan Uvhagen, Mia von Knorring, Henna Hasson, John Øvretveit, Johan HanssonThe purpose of this paper is to explore factors influencing early implementation and intermediate outcomes of a healthcare-academia partnership in a primary healthcare setting.
Residents’ educational attainment and preventive care utilization in China
Yen-Han Lee, Timothy Chiang, Ching-Ti LiuChina launched a comprehensive health reform in 2009 to improve healthcare quality. Because preventive care utilization in China has not been frequently discussed, the purpose of…
Context-based patient choice management in healthcare
An Chen, Paul Martin Lillrank, Henni Tenhunen, Antti Peltokorpi, Paulus Torkki, Seppo Heinonen, Vedran StefanovicIn healthcare, there is limited knowledge of and experience with patient choice management. The purpose of this paper is to focus on patient choice, apply and test…
Socio-economic inequalities in health services utilization: a cross-sectional study
Mohammad Ranjbar Ezzatabadi, Ameneh Khosravi, Mohammad Amin Bahrami, Sima RafieiDeveloping country workers mainly face important challenges when examining equality in health services utilization among the population and identifying influential factors. The…
Patient-perceived hospital service quality: an empirical assessment
Yogesh P. Pai, Satyanarayana T. Chary, Rashmi Yogesh PaiThe purpose of this paper is to appraise Pai and Chary’s (2016) conceptual framework for measuring patient-perceived hospital service quality (HSQ).
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- Professor Charu Chandra
- Professor Sameer Kumar