scholarly journals Comparisons between OEO neighborhood health centers and other health care providers of ratings of the quality of health care.

1971 ◽  
Vol 61 (7) ◽  
pp. 1294-1306 ◽  
Author(s):  
M A Morehead ◽  
R S Donaldson ◽  
M R Seravalli
Author(s):  
Mohammed Elhadi ◽  
Ahmed Al-Hosni ◽  
Khaled Day ◽  
Adbullah Al-Hamadani ◽  
Abdulrahman Al-Toqi ◽  
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This paper is a review of Oman's major Health Information Systems (HISs) and their enabling technologies. The work assesses the scope, functionality, security, and interoperability of the used systems. The review aids in achieving the objectives of HIS systems of improving the global quality of health care, attaining increased coordination between health care providers and consumers, promoting the use of guidelines and policies, and improving the speed of simultaneous access and distribution of medicalrecords and other resources. This paper, which can be considered as a building block towards the development of a nation-wide health care system, studies existing systems and identifies their functions and structures.  


2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-7
Author(s):  
Moradali Zareipour ◽  
Mahdi Abdolkarimi ◽  
Zahra Moradi ◽  
Mahmood Mahbubi ◽  
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2000 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark McClellan ◽  
Douglas Staiger

1995 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 383-418
Author(s):  
Torin A. Dorros ◽  
T. Howard Stone

Enormous and fundamental changes are currently taking place in health care delivery. These changes include the consolidation of health care providers—from hospitals, physicians, and insurance companies, to medical supply businesses, managed care networks, and other health care providers—and numerous health care and insurance reform efforts by government at all levels. These changes pose significant implications for the delivery of health care in the United States, and will impact the manner, cost, and accessibility of health care delivery. These changes will almost certainly affect the quality of health care services as well. The quality of health care in the United States has for many years been a central concern of government, industry, health care providers, payors, and consumers. Quality in health care is essential to overall national health, the guarantor of a productive and healthy populace, and an important indicator of United States social and technological preeminence.


2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 219-231
Author(s):  
Giulia Carletti ◽  
Nicola Soriani ◽  
Martina Mattiazzi ◽  
Dario Gregori

Background:Measuring service quality aids health care providers to recognize specific and unmet needs of patients. Nevertheless, perceived quality of health care services (PQC) is often investigated with inadequate techniques which may lead to biased results.Objective:The aim of the present study is to develop a proof-of-concept for estimating the PQC using the scale-up estimator, with reference to a concrete assessment in patients of a major Oncology Hospital in Veneto (IOV). Results have then been compared with those collected by the Customer Relations Office (CRO) after the annual survey conducted with traditional questionnaire based techniques.Material and Methods:Seven hundred and eighty-three sets consisting of two questionnaires were handed out to IOV patients between 26 and 28 November 2012. The first questionnaire was the CRO annual one composed by 15 direct questions about the perception of quality satisfaction rate using a Likert scale. The second questionnaire was the scale-up (NSUM) one, composed by 20 indirect questions, 5 of which were reproducing the main target of CRO for estimating PQC.Results:The comparisons made over 299 sets of questionnaires showed differences between the two techniques. Network Scale-Up Method (NSUM) questionnaire seems to be able to produce lower estimates of PQC with respect to the CRO annual questionnaire. In some cases, the NSUM showed dissatisfaction rates which are 20-fold higher respect to CRO.Conclusion:NSUM could be a promising method for assessing the perceived quality of care.


2015 ◽  
Vol 125 (2) ◽  
pp. 72-76
Author(s):  
Ludmiła Marcinowicz ◽  
Renata Sierżantowicz ◽  
Agnieszka Dudzik ◽  
Jolanta Sawicka-Powierza ◽  
Zbysław Grajek ◽  
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Abstract Introduction. Patient satisfaction surveys are still popular tools for obtaining feedback on the quality of health care. Nonetheless, there is a paucity of data to indicate whether health care providers even want patients to assess the quality of care delivered. Neither it is certain whether patients are interested in participating in such surveys. Aim. To present and compare the perspectives of doctors, nurses, and patients on the validity of health care customer satisfaction surveys. Material and methods. A cross-sectional survey design was used. The questionnaires were administered to doctors, nurses and patients in three hospitals of different sizes (small, medium, and large), all in the north-east of Poland. Each sample group was given 200 questionnaires; responses were received from 95 doctors (47.5%), 190 nurses (95%), and 182 patients (91%), and included in the final analyses. Results. Most respondents (doctors - 64.2%; nurses - 61.6%; patients - 87.4%) answered ‘Yes’ to the question ‘Do you think that patients should evaluate the quality of health care?’ Analysis of data allowed to identify the following main reasons why patients should evaluate the quality of health care: 1. to enhance the quality of care; 2. to recognise patients as evaluators; 3. to motivate providers to work more efficiently; and 4. to emphasise the impact of evaluation on a core value, i.e. health. Doctors and nurses outlined reasons why they did not advocate conducting patient satisfaction surveys: satisfaction surveys are redundant; negative evaluations; unwillingness to be evaluated by patients; satisfaction surveys hamper effective work with patients; surveys are not objective; survey results are not communicated to providers. Conclusions. Patient satisfaction surveys are desirable tools for evaluating the quality of health care delivery despite the fact that they frequently raise concerns amongst providers and patients. There is, therefore, a definite need for providers to experience the benefits of measuring patient satisfaction. Another important practical implication is that patients need to be convinced that their opinions do matter and contribute to improving the quality of services.


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