The quality movement is gaining momentum worldwide in the field of health care. Initiated in
industrialized countries, it steadily grows in Africa. However, there is no evidence that …

Quality Management and Managerialism in Healthcare creates a comprehensive and
systematic international survey of various perspectives on healthcare quality management …

The health care industry has come under increasing pressure to define, measure and
improve the quality of health care services delivered. To set the framework for this …

Background: Quality Management is one of the most effective strategies for improving the
health systems performance in developed and developing countries. The main goal of this …

Issues. Countries and international organizations have recently renewed their interest in
how health systems perform. This has led to the development of performance indicators for …

This paper describes the results of a research conducted in Greek public hospitals between
May and October 1998. According to secondary data, Greek hospitals do not seem to follow …

The purpose of this paper is to present the idea of a national health quality plan as a way of
mobilising and organising effort towards quality improvement, and stimulate debate and …

The UK NHS quality proposals require all NHS organisations to develop an “integrated
approach” to quality. In other countries, health care organisations are also working to ensure …

This article presents a conceptual paradigm by which health care executives and other
interested parties can classify and organize the extant literature on quality improvement in …

This paper reports on the findings from a quantitative research study of quality management
in the Irish health‐care sector. The study findings suggest that quality management is what …