A New Edition of International Journal for Quality in Health Care is Available

February 6, 2014

International Journal for Quality in Health Care (Volume 26, No. 1, February 2014) is now available online by subscription only.

Articles include:

• “Bridging the ivory towers and the swampy lowlands; increasing the impact of health services research on quality improvement” by Martin N. Marshall
• “How can we recognize continuous quality improvement?” by Lisa Rubenstein, et al.
• “How many diagnosis fields are needed to capture safety events in administrative data? Findings and recommendations from the WHO ICD-11 Topic Advisory Group on Quality and Safety” by Saskia E. Drösler, et al.
• “The relationship between hospital patients’ ratings of quality of care and communication” by Anita C. Keller, et al.
• “What impedes and what facilitates a quality improvement project for older hospitalized patients?” by Roelie Ijkema, et al.
• “Association of healthcare expenditures with aggressive versus palliative care for cancer patients at the end of life: a cross-sectional study using claims data in Japan” by Toshitaka Morishima, et al.