AB037. Quality measurement of specialty care in Pacific Rim countries: an analysis of five models

Objectives of this study were analyze fish auction participant satisfaction to auction services in TPI Morodemak, analyze attributes effect, services that fit to service quality measurement, and analyzed fish auction participants perception to performance and importance for fish auction house Morodemak services. Used descriptive method and purposive sampling with 49 respondents consists of commercial fishmongers, traditional fishmongers, purse seine owners, and boat lift net owners as fish auction participant. Satisfication measurement used Customer Satisfication Index (CSI), Importance and Performance Analysis (IPA) and gap analysis. Results from this study were value CSI 20% (0.2) indicate the auction participants dissatisfied with the services provided, IPA show there are four attributes should be develop, two elements have not been completed based on measurement requirements of service satisfaction, gap value average -0.05 means the auction participants were not satisfied with the performance of TPI services because the performance value was lower than the importance value.

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Care Coordination and Unmet Specialty Care Among Children With Special Health Care Needs

PEDIATRICS ◽

10.1542/peds.2013-2174d ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 133 (6) ◽

pp. X11-X11

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Care Coordination ◽

Specialty Care ◽

Special Health Care Needs ◽

Health Care Needs ◽

Care Needs ◽

Special Health Care ◽

Special Health

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Quality assurance and quality improvement in medical practice – Part 1. Definition and importance of quality in medical practice

Orvosi Hetilap ◽

10.1556/oh.2012.29291 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 153 (3) ◽

pp. 83-92

Author(s):

Sándor Gődény

Keyword(s):

Quality Assurance ◽

Health Status ◽

Quality Management ◽

Medical Practice ◽

Quality Measurement ◽

The European Union ◽

Management Quality ◽

Hungarian Population ◽

Healthcare Finance

In Hungary healthcare finance has decreased in proportion with the GDP, while the health status of the population is still ranks among the worst in the European Union. Since healthcare finance is not expected to increase, the number of practicing doctors per capita is continuously decreasing. In the coming years it is an important question that in this situation what methods can be used to prevent further deterioration of the health status of the Hungarian population, and within this is the role of the quality approach, and different methods of quality management. In the present and the forthcoming two articles those standpoints will be summarized which support the need for the integration of quality assurance in the everyday medical practice. In the first part the importance of quality thinking, quality management, quality assurance, necessity of quality measurement and improvement, furthermore, advantages of the quality systems will be discussed. Orv. Hetil., 2012, 153, 83–92.

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