Quality in Health Care : Qhc
Overview
Quality in Health Care : Qhc is a scientific journal, published since 1992 in English. The journal's country of origin is United Kingdom and its primary focus area is health services.
Details
Details
Abbr.
Qual Health Care
Start
1992
End
2001
Frequency
Quarterly
p-ISSN
0963-8172
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Specialty
Health Services
Recent Articles
1.
Petticrew M, Rodgers M, Booth A
Qual Health Care
. 2001 Dec;
10(4):268-73.
PMID: 11743157
No abstract available.
2.
Hart E, Hazelgrove J
Qual Health Care
. 2001 Dec;
10(4):257-62.
PMID: 11743156
This paper responds to the current emphasis on organisational learning in the NHS as a means of improving healthcare systems and making hospitals safer places for patients. Conspiracies of silence...
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Swinglehurst D, Pierce M, Fuller J
Qual Health Care
. 2001 Dec;
10(4):245-9.
PMID: 11743154
Objectives: To develop and evaluate an information service in which a "clinical informaticist" (a GP with training in evidence-based medicine) provided evidence-based answers to questions posed by GPs and nurse...
5.
Rycroft-Malone J
Qual Health Care
. 2001 Dec;
10(4):238-44.
PMID: 11743153
Background: There is currently a political enthusiasm for the development and use of clinical guidelines despite, paradoxically, there being relatively few healthcare issues that have a sound research evidence base....
6.
Coleman P, Nicholl J
Qual Health Care
. 2001 Dec;
10(4):229-37.
PMID: 11743152
Objectives: To examine the influence of evidence-based guidance on health care decisions, a study of the use of seven different sources and types of evidence-based guidance was carried out in...
7.
Vingerhoets E, Wensing M, Grol R
Qual Health Care
. 2001 Dec;
10(4):224-8.
PMID: 11743151
Objective: To assess the effects of feedback of patients' evaluations of care to general practitioners. Design: Randomised trial. Setting: General practice in the Netherlands. Subjects: 55 GPs and samples of...
8.
Meiland F, Danse J, Wendte J, Gunning-Schepers L, Klazinga N
Qual Health Care
. 2001 Dec;
10(4):218-23.
PMID: 11743150
Objective: To assess the deleterious effects of waiting for admission to a nursing home on the state of health of patients and their informal caregivers, and on the burden of...
9.
Wagner C, van der Wal G, Groenewegen P, de Bakker D
Qual Health Care
. 2001 Dec;
10(4):211-7.
PMID: 11743149
Background: The need for quality improvement and increasing concern about the costs and appropriateness of health care has led to the implementation of quality systems in healthcare organisations. In addition,...
10.
Kyrkjebo J, Hanssen T, Haugland B
Qual Health Care
. 2001 Dec;
10(4):204-10.
PMID: 11743148
Objective: To evaluate a programme introducing quality improvement (QI) in nursing education. Settings: Betanien College of Nursing and clinical practices at hospitals in Bergen. Subjects: 52 nursing students from a...