International Journal for Quality in Health Care

Counterpoint:

Donald S. Shepard

Public-private collaborations in health care: lessons from India
Int J Qual Health Care 2001 13: 277-278; doi:10.1093/intqhc/13.4.277 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Peter Berman

Getting more from private health care in poor countries: a missed opportunity
Int J Qual Health Care 2001 13: 279-280; doi:10.1093/intqhc/13.4.279 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rainer Sauerborn

Low quality of care in low income countries: is the private sector the answer?
Int J Qual Health Care 2001 13: 281-282; doi:10.1093/intqhc/13.4.281 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Articles:

Ráz Samandari, Sharon Kleefield, Jim Hammel, Mehul Mehta, and Robert Crone

Privately funded quality health care in India: a sustainable and equitable model
Int J Qual Health Care 2001 13: 283-288; doi:10.1093/intqhc/13.4.283 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Patricia Halfon and Yves Eggli

Screening inappropriate hospital days on the basis of routinely available data
Int J Qual Health Care 2001 13: 289-299; doi:10.1093/intqhc/13.4.289 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Brigitte Santos-Eggimann, Nicole Chavaz, Tania Larequi, Olivier Lamy, and Bertrand Yersin

Heart failure and community-acquired pneumonia: cases for home hospital?
Int J Qual Health Care 2001 13: 301-307; doi:10.1093/intqhc/13.4.301 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Susan E. Campbell, Anne E. Walker, Jeremy M. Grimshaw, Marion K. Campbell, Gordon D. O. Lowe, Douglas Harper, F. Gerry R. Fowkes, and James C. Petrie

The prevalence of prophylaxis for deep vein thrombosis in acute hospital trusts
Int J Qual Health Care 2001 13: 309-316; doi:10.1093/intqhc/13.4.309 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Orna Baron-Epel, Marina Dushenat, and Nurit Friedman

Evaluation of the consumer model: relationship between patients' expectations, perceptions and satisfaction with care
Int J Qual Health Care 2001 13: 317-323; doi:10.1093/intqhc/13.4.317 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Afschin Gandjour, Joachim Westenhöfer, Alfred Wirth, Christiane Fuchs, and Karl Wilhelm Lauterbach

Development process of an evidence-based guideline for the treatment of obesity
Int J Qual Health Care 2001 13: 325-332; doi:10.1093/intqhc/13.4.325 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Dominique-Jeanne Lepaux

Improving the quality of the admission process in a French psychiatric hospital: impact on the expertise of the professional team
Int J Qual Health Care 2001 13: 333-338; doi:10.1093/intqhc/13.4.333 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Patient Safety Alert:

‘High-alert’ medications and patient safety
Int J Qual Health Care 2001 13: 339-340; doi:10.1093/intqhc/13.4.339 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters to the Editor:

Salvador Peiró, Ricardo Meneu, Susana Lorenzo, and Joseph D. Restuccia

Assessing the necessity of hospital stay by means of the Appropriateness Evaluation Protocol: a different perspective
Int J Qual Health Care 2001 13: 341-343; doi:10.1093/intqhc/13.4.341 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Patrick Smeets, Lambert Panis, Frank Verheggen, and Peter Pop

Assessing the necessity of hospital stay by means of the Appropriateness Evaluation Protocol: not quite a different perspective
Int J Qual Health Care 2001 13: 345-346; doi:10.1093/intqhc/13.4.345 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Announcements:

The International Society for Quality in Health Care
Int J Qual Health Care 2001 13: 347; doi:10.1093/intqhc/13.4.347 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

In this Issue:

Abstracts en este numero
Int J Qual Health Care 2001 13: 349-352; doi:10.1093/intqhc/13.4.349 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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