International audienceThe quality of healthcare services is a deep concern everywhere for healthcare professionals (Arndt & Bigelow, 1995). Currently, there is a trend of the development and increasing sophistication of technologies that increase healthcare costs, whereas public budgets are limited or at least have not been increasing in proportion to these rising costs. Furthermore, the aging of the population in developed countries, where healthcare system is top-of-the-range, also entails a growing demand of expensive healthcare. Moreover, standards of quality and security care, especially with accreditation agencies, add many administrative tasks in hospital administration that it now represents 10% of work time
International audienceFollowing the example of the United States, most European countries reformed t...
Abstract Background Quality improvement (QI) initiatives such as accreditation, public reporting, in...
Introduction. In Chile we have an incipient culture on quality in healthcare and changing this cultu...
International audienceThe quality of healthcare services is a deep concern everywhere for healthcare...
Organisation-wide studies in cost and quality of care are rare, and Wackers et al make a valuable co...
The article available on this institutional repository is a preprint. It may not have been certified...
Several interrelated strategies involving physician leadership and participation have been proposed ...
With over 160,000 hospitals worldwide, patients have more options than ever to seek both emergency a...
The earlier version of this paper appeared as a working paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.04168. A...
International audienceFollowing the example of the United States, most European countries reformed t...
Background Quality improvement (QI) initiatives such as accreditation, public reporting, inspection ...
International audienceFollowing the example of the United States, most European countries reformed t...
Containing costs is a major challenge in health care. Cost and quality are often seen as trade-offs,...
In health care systems based upon managed competition, insurers are expected to negotiate with provi...
Integration of health care services has been promoted in several countries to improve the quality an...
International audienceFollowing the example of the United States, most European countries reformed t...
Abstract Background Quality improvement (QI) initiatives such as accreditation, public reporting, in...
Introduction. In Chile we have an incipient culture on quality in healthcare and changing this cultu...
International audienceThe quality of healthcare services is a deep concern everywhere for healthcare...
Organisation-wide studies in cost and quality of care are rare, and Wackers et al make a valuable co...
The article available on this institutional repository is a preprint. It may not have been certified...
Several interrelated strategies involving physician leadership and participation have been proposed ...
With over 160,000 hospitals worldwide, patients have more options than ever to seek both emergency a...
The earlier version of this paper appeared as a working paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.04168. A...
International audienceFollowing the example of the United States, most European countries reformed t...
Background Quality improvement (QI) initiatives such as accreditation, public reporting, inspection ...
International audienceFollowing the example of the United States, most European countries reformed t...
Containing costs is a major challenge in health care. Cost and quality are often seen as trade-offs,...
In health care systems based upon managed competition, insurers are expected to negotiate with provi...
Integration of health care services has been promoted in several countries to improve the quality an...
International audienceFollowing the example of the United States, most European countries reformed t...
Abstract Background Quality improvement (QI) initiatives such as accreditation, public reporting, in...
Introduction. In Chile we have an incipient culture on quality in healthcare and changing this cultu...