in their 2016 article, saltman and duran provide a thoughtful examination of the governance challenges involved in different care delivery models adopted in primary care and hospitals in two european countries. this commentary examines the limited potential of structural changes to achieve real reform and considers that, unless governance arrangements actually succeed in penetrating organizatio...

background:patient concerns represent opportunities for improvement in orthopaedic care. thisstudy’s objectiveis to identify the nature and prevalence of unsolicited patient complaints regarding orthopaedic care ata tertiary referral hospital. the primary null hypothesis that there are no demographic factors associatedwith complaint types was tested. secondarily we determined if the overall com...

The Swedish healthcare system, although being one of the more efficient care systems in the world with good medical outcomes at a moderate cost, faces tremendous future challenges. An ageing population with more patients suffering from multiple diseases together with accelerating medicotechnical developments is putting increasing pressure on the system. The quality and safety of the system has ...

In their 2016 article, Saltman and Duran provide a thoughtful examination of the governance challenges involved in different care delivery models adopted in primary care and hospitals in two European countries. This commentary examines the limited potential of structural changes to achieve real reform and considers that, unless governance arrangements actually succeed in penetrating organizatio...

OBJECTIVE This survey provides an overview of the development of policies and strategies for quality improvement in European healthcare systems, by mapping quality improvement policies and strategies, progress in their implementation, and early indications of their impact. STUDY DESIGN A survey of quality improvement policies and strategies in healthcare systems of the European Union was cond...

this commentary reviews a recent piece by burton and rycroft-malone on the use of resource based view (rbv) in healthcare organizations. it first outlines the core content of their piece. it then discusses their attempts to extend rbv to the analysis of large scale quality improvement efforts in healthcare. some critique is elaborated. the broader question of why rbv seems to be migrating into ...