This paper addresses aspects of logistics quality management system documentation development and suggests models for … quality management system documentation development, documentation hierarchical systems and authorization approval. It also … review of current literature and recommendations for quality management system standards. …

This study assesses the impact of competition on quality and price in the English care/nursing homes market … could increase or reduce quality. A dataset comprising the population of 10,000 care homes was used. We constructed distance … quality and price were reduced by greater competition. Further analyses suggested that the negative quality effect worked …

performance, productivity, waiting times and clinical quality and find little evidence that mergers achieved gains other than a …

decades, very little is known about the quality of care CCRCs provide. This paper is the first to rigorously study CCRCs on a … national scale and the only study that focuses on nursing home quality. Using a national sample from 2005, we determine if the … quality of post-acute care provided by CCRC nursing homes is superior to traditional nursing homes. To mimic randomization of …

whether the nonprofit sector provides higher nursing home quality relative to its for-profit counterpart. However … randomization of residents into more or less “exposure” to nonprofit homes when estimating the effects of ownership on quality of …

Public and private entities around the world are trying to induce the provision of higher-quality health care by … precision of signals available to consumers regarding provider quality—may result in lower equilibrium quality, holding prices …

performance, productivity, waiting times and clinical quality and find little evidence that mergers achieved gains other than a …