Niek Klazinga

Publication List Details

Period

1994 - 2008

Number

30

Co-Authors

The World Health Organization Performance Assessment Tool for Quality Improvement in Hospitals (PATH): An Analysis of the Pilot Implementation in 37 Hospitals (2008)

Groene, Oliver, Klazinga, Niek, Kazandjian, Vahé, Lombrail, Pierre, Bartels, Paul

Objective To evaluate the pilot implementation of the World Health Organization Performance Assessment Tool for Quality Improvement in hospitals (PATH). Design Semi-structured interviews with...

Changes in primary health care centres over the transition period in Slovenia (2006)

Albreht, Tit, Delnoij, Diana M. J., Klazinga, Niek

Background: Primary health care centres (PHCCs) were a characteristic of the former Yugoslav health care system introduced widely in Slovenia. Transition brought structural changes to health care and...

Evidence-based policy? The use of mobile phones in hospital (2006)

Ettelt, Stefanie, Nolte, Ellen, McKee, Martin, Haugen, Odd Arild, Karlberg, Ingvar, Klazinga, Niek, ...

Background Evidence-based policies have become increasingly accepted in clinical practice. However, policies on many of the non-clinical activities that take place in health care facilities may be...

Patient satisfaction with large-scale out-of-hours primary health care in The Netherlands: development of a postal questionnaire (2006)

Moll Van Charante, Eric, Giesen, Paul, Mokkink, Henk, Oort, Frans, Grol, Richard, Klazinga, Niek, ...

Background. Since the turn of the millennium, out-of-hours primary health care in The Netherlands has faced a substantial change from small locum groups towards large GP cooperatives. Improving the...

OECD Health Care Quality Indicator Project. The expert panel on primary care prevention and health promotion (2006)

Marshall, Martin, Klazinga, Niek, Leatherman, Sheila, Hardy, Charlie, Bergmann, Eckhard, Pisco, Luis, ...

Purpose. This article describes a project undertaken as part of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)’s Healthcare Quality Indicator (HCQI) Project, which aimed to...

Patient satisfaction with large-scale out-of-hours primary health care in The Netherlands: development of a postal questionnaire (2006)

Moll Van Charante, Eric, Giesen, Paul, Mokkink, Henk, Oort, Frans, Grol, Richard, Klazinga, Niek, ...

Background. Since the turn of the millennium, out-of-hours primary health care in The Netherlands has faced a substantial change from small locum groups towards large GP cooperatives. Improving the...

Evidence-based policy? The use of mobile phones in hospital (2006)

Ettelt, Stefanie, Nolte, Ellen, McKee, Martin, Haugen, Odd Arild, Karlberg, Ingvar, Klazinga, Niek, ...

Background Evidence-based policies have become increasingly accepted in clinical practice. However, policies on many of the non-clinical activities that take place in health care facilities may be...

Changes in primary health care centres over the transition period in Slovenia (2006)

Albreht, Tit, Delnoij, Diana M. J., Klazinga, Niek

Background: Primary health care centres (PHCCs) were a characteristic of the former Yugoslav health care system introduced widely in Slovenia. Transition brought structural changes to health care and...

Changes in primary health care centres over the transition period in Slovenia (2006)

Albreht, Tit, Delnoij, Diana M. J., Klazinga, Niek

Background: Primary health care centres (PHCCs) were a characteristic of the former Yugoslav health care system introduced widely in Slovenia. Transition brought structural changes to health care and...

Evidence-based policy? The use of mobile phones in hospital (2006)

Ettelt, Stefanie, Nolte, Ellen, McKee, Martin, Haugen, Odd Arild, Karlberg, Ingvar, Klazinga, Niek, ...

Background Evidence-based policies have become increasingly accepted in clinical practice. However, policies on many of the non-clinical activities that take place in health care facilities may be...

Patient satisfaction with large-scale out-of-hours primary health care in The Netherlands: development of a postal questionnaire (2006)

Moll Van Charante, Eric, Giesen, Paul, Mokkink, Henk, Oort, Frans, Grol, Richard, Klazinga, Niek, ...

Background. Since the turn of the millennium, out-of-hours primary health care in The Netherlands has faced a substantial change from small locum groups towards large GP cooperatives. Improving the...

Quality of stroke prevention in general practice: relationship with practice organization (2005)

De Koning, Johan S., Klazinga, Niek, Koudstaal, Peter J., Prins, AD, Mackenbach, Johan P.

Objective. To investigate the relationship between elements of practice organization related to stroke prevention in general practice, and suboptimal preventive care preceding the occurrence of...

Deprivation and systematic stroke prevention in general practice: An audit among general practitioners in the Rotterdam region, the Netherlands (2003)

De Koning, Johan S., Klazinga, Niek, Koudstaal, Peter J., Prins, Ad, Peeters, Anna, ...

Background: To investigate differences in quality of preventive care provided by general practitioners (GPs) to patients at risk of stroke living in deprived and non-deprived neighbourhoods in the...

Health Manpower Planning in Slovenia: A Policy Analysis of the Changes in Roles of Stakeholders and Methodologies (2002)

Albreht, Tit, Klazinga, Niek

A heightened awareness about medical manpower issues can be observed in countries that are in a state of political, economic, and social transition. Slovenia entered the transition process in 1989...

Indicators without a cause. Reflections on the development and use of indicators in health care from a public health perspective (2001)

Klazinga, Niek, Stronks, Karien, Delnoij, Diana, Verhoeff, Arnoud

Indicators have a long history in public health. Since the end of the 18th century information on the health of communities has been gathered on a health system level and public health indicators...

Re-engineering trust: the adoption and adaption of four models for external quality assurance of health care services in western European health care systems (2000)

KLAZINGA, NIEK

Accreditation, ISO, EFQM and visitatie are, in essence, control mechanisms in health care systems. An analysis is provided of the way the four models have been adopted and adapted in European health...

The EFQM excellence model: European and Dutch experiences with the EFQM approach in health care (2000)

NABITZ, UDO, KLAZINGA, NIEK, WALBURG, JAN

One way to meet the challenges in creating a high performance organization in health care is the approach of the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM). The Foundation is in the tradition...

Concerted Action Programme on Quality Assurance in Hospitals 1990-1993 (COMAC/HSR/QA) Global Results of the Evaluation (1994)

KLAZINGA, NIEK

This article describes the global results of the evaluation of a concerted action programme on quality assurance in hospitals that was executed between 1990 and 1993 in a total of 262 hospitals in 15...

How can quality of health care be safeguarded across the European Union?

Legido-Quigley, Helena, McKee, Martin, Walshe, Kieran, Suñol, Rosa, Nolte, Ellen, Klazinga, Niek

Can Europeans be confident about the quality of care received in another EU country? Helena Legido-Quigley and colleagues discuss the various mechanisms at work across Europe to ensure quality and...

Privatisation of health care in Slovenia in the period 1992-2008

Albreht, Tit, Klazinga, Niek

Objectives To discuss the background, nature and facilitating and hindering factors of the privatisation process in health care in Slovenia.Methods Descriptive analyses of legal and policy documents...

Quality management and patient safety: Survey results from 102 Hungarian hospitals

Makai, Peter, Klazinga, Niek, Wagner, Cordula, Boncz, Imre, Gulacsi, Lászlo

Objectives The aim of this study is to describe the development of quality management systems in Hungarian hospitals. It also aims to answer the policy question, whether a separate patient safety...