Title |
Talking about quality: exploring how ‘quality’ is conceptualized in European hospitals and healthcare systems
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Published in |
BMC Health Services Research, October 2014
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DOI | 10.1186/1472-6963-14-478 |
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Authors |
Siri Wiig, Karina Aase, Christian von Plessen, Susan Burnett, Francisco Nunes, Anne Marie Weggelaar, Boel Anderson-Gare, Johan Calltorp, Naomi Fulop, For QUASER-team |
Abstract |
Conceptualization of quality of care - in terms of what individuals, groups and organizations include in their meaning of quality, is an unexplored research area. It is important to understand how quality is conceptualised as a means to successfully implement improvement efforts and bridge potential disconnect in language about quality between system levels, professions, and clinical services. The aim is therefore to explore and compare conceptualization of quality among national bodies (macro level), senior hospital managers (meso level), and professional groups within clinical micro systems (micro level) in a cross-national study. |
X Demographics
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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United Kingdom | 3 | 50% |
Spain | 1 | 17% |
Unknown | 2 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Members of the public | 4 | 67% |
Scientists | 2 | 33% |
Mendeley readers
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
Spain | 1 | <1% |
Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
Unknown | 184 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Student > Master | 34 | 18% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 32 | 17% |
Researcher | 19 | 10% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 18 | 10% |
Other | 10 | 5% |
Other | 33 | 18% |
Unknown | 41 | 22% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
---|---|---|
Medicine and Dentistry | 41 | 22% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 35 | 19% |
Social Sciences | 20 | 11% |
Business, Management and Accounting | 14 | 7% |
Engineering | 8 | 4% |
Other | 25 | 13% |
Unknown | 44 | 24% |