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Quality assurance of health management information system in Kayunga district, Uganda

African Evaluation Journal, 2018
Background: An efficient health management information system (HMIS) improves health care delivery and outcomes. However, in most rural settings in Uganda, paper-based HMIS are widely used to monitor public health care services.
Harriet R. Kagoya, Dan Kibuule
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Overview of the quality assurance movement in health care

Best Practice & Research Clinical Gastroenterology, 2011
This chapter aims to describe the origin and current status of quality assurance (QA) in health care and to provide a background of similar developments in other industries, which have provided a major impetus for QA initiatives in health care. The interest in quality and safety in the health care sector has rapidly risen over the past decade.
Jerome Sint Nicolaas, Monique E. van Leerdam, Ernst J. Kuipers, Vincent de Jonge   +3 more
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Comparative analysis of quality assurance in health care delivery and higher medical education

Advances in Medical Education and Practice, 2012
Jamiu O BusariDepartment of Educational Development and Research, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Maastricht, Maastricht, The NetherlandsAbstract: Quality assurance (QA) in higher medical education involves the development ...
Busari JO
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Service quality in hospital inpatient care: SERVQUAL model approach [PDF]

Health SA Gesondheid: Journal of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences
Background: The quality of inpatient health care services significantly influences patient satisfaction, shaping perceptions of hospital performance and health care accessibility.
Sitti Rahmatia, Muhammad Basri, Ismail Ismail, Sukriyadi Adi, Nasrullah Nasrullah, Aini Ahmad   +5 more
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QUALITY ASSURANCE AND EFFECTIVENESS IN HEALTH CARE: AN OVERVIEW

International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 1990
Increasing interest in quality assurance and effectiveness in health care has been generated by three major things: about 20% of care is consistently demonstrated to be inappropriate, variations in practice cannot be explained by patient or facility factors, and decreased utilization as a result of changing economic and regulatory incentives seems to ...
J. Lomas
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Acute Hemolytic Reaction After Transfusion of Erythrocyte-containing Blood Components: Causes, Prevention, Clinical Cases

Неотложная медицинская помощь, 2021
The article concerns the problem of studying the causes of the development of hemolytic reactions after transfusion of erythrocyte-containing blood components. The ways of preventing hemolysis as a result of blood transfusions are considered.
Ya. S. Andreyeva, O. A. Mayorova, A. Yu. Bulanov, K. S. Momotyuk, V. Yu. Zinkin, V. V. Belyakova, E. A. Vatagina   +6 more
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Internal Quality and Job Satisfaction in Health Care Services

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022
(1) Background: The main purpose of this study was to evaluate the health services’ internal quality level in Greek public hospitals and to investigate whether there is a relation between internal quality and health care professionals’ job satisfaction. (
A. Goula, Theodoros Rizopoulos, M. Stamouli, M. Kelesi, E. Kaba, S. Soulis   +5 more
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Nurse managers’ views regarding patients’ long waiting time at community health centers in Gauteng Province, South Africa

Belitung Nursing Journal, 2022
Background: Patients’ long waiting time still exceeds the set target of 120 minutes. As a result, the volume of complaints remains a concern that points to systems inefficiencies.
Solly Ratsietsi Makua, Sisinyana Khunou
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Molecular pathology testing for non-small cell lung cancer: an observational study of elements currently present in request forms and result reports and the opinion of different stakeholders

BMC Cancer, 2022
Background For patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), targeted therapies are becoming part of the standard treatment. It is of question which information the clinicians provide on test requests and how the laboratories adapt test conclusions ...
Kelly Dufraing, Kaat Van Casteren, Joke Breyne, Nicky D’Haene, Claude Van Campenhout, Sara Vander Borght, Karen Zwaenepoel, Etienne Rouleau, Ed Schuuring, Jan von der Thüsen, Elisabeth Dequeker   +10 more
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Experiences of postnatal mothers with quality of care including water, sanitation and hygiene amenities during the outbreak of COVID - 19 in Ghana: An institutional cross-sectional study

Public Health in Practice, 2023
Objective: To investigate the experiences and perceptions of postnatal mothers with quality of healthcare including WASH amenities among postnatal mothers in Ghana during the COVID-19 outbreak. Study design: The study was an institutional cross-sectional.
Mary Eyram Ashinyo, Vida Duti, Stephen Dajaan Dubik, Kingsley E. Amegah, Robert Kaba Alhassan   +4 more
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