AIM To identify instruments measuring the quality of the physical healthcare environment, describe their psychometric properties. BACKGROUND The physical healthcare environment is regarded as a quality factor for health care. To facilitate evidence-based design there is a need for valid and usable instruments that can evaluate the design of the healthcare environment. DESIGN Systematic psyc...

CONFLICT OF INTEREST NONE DECLARED In order to speed up and simplify the self assessment and external assessment process, provide better overview and access to Accreditation Standards for Family Medicine Teams and better assessment documents archiving, Agency for Healthcare Quality and Accreditation in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (AKAZ) has developed self assessment and externals asses...

Background Training courses in integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI) have been conducted for health workers for nearly one and half decades in Afghanistan. The objective of the training courses is to improve quality of care in terms of health workers communication skills and clinical performance when they provide health services for under-5 children in public healthcare facili...

The assessment of healthcare quality increasingly emphasises lay acceptability, as evidenced by the emergence of patient satisfaction and patient-centred care in the literature and in policy. In this paper we aim to provide a conceptual overview of acceptability and propose ways to enhance its assessment. Firstly, we map how acceptability's importance in quality assessments has increased and ho...

This systematic review synthesizes evidence on the perceptions and experiences of adult victims of domestic violence when accessing healthcare services. The review was concerned with disclosure of domestic violence by adult victims when accessing health services, the responses of healthcare professionals to these victims, victims' perceived barriers to support, and the appropriateness of suppor...

Background: Healthcare workers’ work performance is an important issue affected by the clinical work environment and equipment. The present study aims to predict healthcare workers’ work performance based on safety-ergonomic features of hands and medical gloves. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on healthcare workers at the hospitals of Shiraz University of Medica...

Quantifying and improving the quality of health care is an increasingly important goal in American medicine. To address this need, the First Scientific Forum on Assessment of Quality of Care and Outcomes Research in Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke was held May 24 to May 26, 1999. This conference brought together providers, researchers, payers (eg, the Health Care Financing Administration [HCF...

Quantifying and improving the quality of health care is an increasingly important goal in American medicine. To address this need, the First Scientific Forum on Assessment of Quality of Care and Outcomes Research in Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke was held May 24 to May 26, 1999. This conference brought together providers, researchers, payers (eg, the Health Care Financing Administration [HCF...

Systematic reviews provide the best evidence on the effectiveness of healthcare interventions including quality improvement strategies. The methods of systematic review of individual patient randomised trials of healthcare interventions are well developed. We discuss methodological and practice issues that need to be considered when undertaking systematic reviews of quality improvement strategi...

Healthcare represents a traditional personal service sector with established importance of patient numeracy profiles. This is of importance because patient numeracy skill is one of the key factors associated with poor understanding of treatment decisions and non-adherence to therapies. This paper aims to introduce a novel quality model for the evaluation of patient numeracy assessment methods. ...