Swiss-CHAT’s playful approach to public rationing can be considered in terms of deliberative process design as well as in terms of health policy. The process’ forced negotiation of trade-offs exposed unexamined driving questions, and challenged prevalent presumptions about health care demand and about conditions of public reasoning that enable transparent rationing. While the experiment provide...

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Food allergies are recognised as a major paediatric health problem in Western countries, affecting 6% to 8% of children up to the age of three years. Food allergy symptoms can be very severe or subtle and sometimes overlooked. Following a Department of Health review of allergy services in 2006, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) was commissioned to produce a guidel...

objective: to find out the quality of anc in the upazila health complexes (phc centres) of bangladesh. materials and methods: this cross sectional study was done in purposively selected three upazilas among the clients receiving antenatal care (anc). data were collected with questionnaire cum checklist in the context of two aspects of quality issues, namely assessment of physical arrangements f...

D uring the past several years, one of the most perplexing issues for surgeons has been the assessment of quality of care. We, however, owe it to ourselves and our patients to master the substantive issues that underlie current discussions about this subject. What is quality care? Many definitions have been proposed. Donabedian developed the classic triad for measuring quality in health care: s...

BACKGROUND A curriculum evaluation gap was addressed by exploring the final year of the Oregon Consortium of Nursing Education (OCNE) curriculum through student perception of competency and benchmark proficiency. METHOD Researchers used a mixed-methods design to explore RN to baccalaureate (RNBS) student self-assessment data on perceived benchmark proficiency. Students' written statements wer...

Due to an identified need for formal assessment, a small team of librarians designed and administered a survey to gauge the quality of customer service at their academic health sciences library. Though results did not drive major changes to services, several important improvements were implemented and a process was established to serve as a foundation for future use. This article details the as...