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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Albreht, Tit., Klazinga, Niek.
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - Volume 27, Number 6, December 2002
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...