Point-of-care testing (POCT) refers to any diagnostic test administered outside the central
laboratory at or near the location of the patient. By performing the sample collection and data …

Person-centred approaches to care delivery have been increasingly promoted in
international policy and strategy, but despite this there is evidence of failings within …

Emergency department (ED) crowding is a multifactorial problem, resulting in increased ED
waiting times, decreased patient satisfaction and deleterious domino effects on the entire …

Purpose Assessing performance and quality in healthcare organisations is moving from
focussing solely on clinical care measurement to considering the patient experience as …

Introduction In recent times, there has been an increasing burden in traumatic, medical, and
surgical emergency conditions, placing more emphasis on the need for quality emergency …

BACKGROUND: Chronically ill elderly patients are frequent users of care in emergency
departments (EDs). Due to their presenting symptoms, these patients are often assessed on …

Purpose: Patients must be able to feel as much trust for caregivers and the healthcare
system at the healthcare centre as at the emergency department. The aim of this study is to …

Objective: To investigate patients who called the emergency medical services (EMS) for
primary healthcare (PHC) problems. Design: A retrospective and exploratory patient record …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to develop an integrated patient-focused analytical
framework to improve quality of care in accident and emergency (A & E) unit of a Maltese …

Purpose The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare operations has raised
questions about the applicability and capacity of the lean approach to respond to critical …