Search for dissertations about: "QUALITY in healthcare"
Showing result 21 - 25 of 459 swedish dissertations containing the words QUALITY in healthcare.
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21. The customer in focus Patient roles in designing and improving care processes
Abstract : Challenges in today’s healthcare are many. One of them is that a patient focus is missing indesign and improvement of care processes. Traditionally healthcare professionals have donethe improvements of care processes in a way they assumed were best based on theirexperiences and professional knowledge. READ MORE
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22. Managing management innovations: Contextual complexity and the pursuit of improvements in healthcare
Abstract : In a context characterised by complexity and conflicting demands, healthcare managers at a meso-level struggle to pursue improvements in the quality and efficiency of care operations. An influential approach on how to pursue improvements is quality management (QM). READ MORE
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23. Collective Patient Participation : Patient Voice and Civil Society Organizations in Healthcare
Abstract : The importance of engaging patients in the development of healthcare services and policy has received increasing attention over the last decades. However, this attention has mainly been directed towards various forms of involvement of individual patients. READ MORE
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24. Logistics Management in a Healthcare Context : Methodological development for describing and evaluating a healthcare organisation as a logistics system
Abstract : This thesis tests whether logistics knowledge, theories and principles can be used to provide potential patient flow efficiency improvements. By emphasizing an ideal logistics system by means of its main features and then using these to evaluate two different healthcare organisations, it is assumed that knowledge regarding patient flows can be obtained and potentials for improvement highlighted. READ MORE
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25. Improving healthcare information systems : A key to evidence based medicine
Abstract : Delivering good quality care is a complex endeavor that is highly dependent on patient information and medical knowledge. When decisions about the care of a patient are made, they must, as far as possible, be based on research-derived evidence rather than on clinical skills and experience alone. READ MORE