Robert, GB;
Anderson, JE;
Burnett, SJ;
Aase, K;
Andersson-Gare, B;
Bal, R;
Calltorp, J;
... QUASER team; + view all
(2011)
A longitudinal, multi-level comparative study of quality and safety in European hospitals: the QUASER study protocol.
BMC Health Services Research
, 11
, Article 285. 10.1186/1472-6963-11-285.
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Abstract
although there is a wealth of information available about quality improvement tools and techniques in healthcare there is little understanding about overcoming the challenges of day-to-day implementation in complex organisations like hospitals. The 'Quality and Safety in Europe by Research' (QUASER) study will investigate how hospitals implement, spread and sustain quality improvement, including the difficulties they face and how they overcome them. The overall aim of the study is to explore relationships between the organisational and cultural characteristics of hospitals and how these impact on the quality of health care; the findings will be designed to help policy makers, payers and hospital managers understand the factors and processes that enable hospitals in Europe to achieve-and sustain-high quality services for their patients.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | A longitudinal, multi-level comparative study of quality and safety in European hospitals: the QUASER study protocol |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1186/1472-6963-11-285 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-11-285 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2011 Robert et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. PMCID: PMC3212959 |
| Keywords: | Europe, Hospital Administration, Hospitals, Humans, Longitudinal Studies, Multilevel Analysis, Organizational Culture, Patient Safety, Qualitative Research, Quality of Health Care, Research Design, Safety Management |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health > Applied Health Research |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1363741 |
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