Quality

Quality management systems

How ICMED has decided to measure gender equality

Women account for around 70 per cent of the global healthcare workforce, but they remain a minority in leadership roles and continue to face a sign...

Traceability in IVF Laboratories: Bridging Global Standards and Ground Reality

Traceability in IVF laboratories goes far beyond the correct identification of gametes and embryos: it is the system that makes it possible to reco...

Traceability of investigational medicinal products in clinical trials and expanded access programs in real-world settings

The management of investigational medicinal products in clinical trials and expanded access programs relies on rigorous traceability throughout eve...

Operational Readiness: Protecting Patient Care in an Era of Growing Complexity

Healthcare innovation depends not only on new therapies but also on an organization's ability to manage growing operational complexity. From advanc...

A Day in the Life of an Apheresis Nurse: Where Clinical Expertise Meets Quality Driven Care

The article provides an in-depth and specialized look at the role of the apheresis nurse, a position where high technology meets clinical dedicatio...

The value of KPI’s in the transplant setting: Wits Donald Gordon Centre, Johannesburg

In high-stakes transplant settings, traditional outcome indicators such as mortality, relapse, and graft-versus-host disease remain essential but i...

PDTA and Monitoring Systems as Engines of HTA: The 'cost' of appropriateness

In a healthcare context characterised by limited resources and increasing complexity, clinical appropriateness emerges as a strategic lever to ensu...

The meaning of procedures

The article reflects on the authentic meaning of procedures in healthcare, overcoming the apparent opposition between standardisation and clinical ...

Managing multidisciplinarity: organisation as a driver of safety and clinical quality

The transition from multidisciplinarity as a 'spontaneous' practice to a governed organisational process is one of the central challenges of modern...

The importance of KPIs in the management of laboratory outcomes in PMA

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are fundamental tools for monitoring and improving quality in medically assisted reproduction (MAP) laboratories....

Case study of organisational management of interfering pathways in an operating block for active organ transplantation

This work stems from the need to observe the operating block not only as a technical site of the surgical act, but as a dynamic system of relations...

How India Is Transforming Healthcare Through Technology

India, now home to more than 1.4 billion people, is undergoing a significant shift in the way healthcare is delivered. This transformation is being...

The management of scientific discoveries

Universities, research centres, companies, are all actors that in various ways are deputed to generate new knowledge and innovations, capable of ch...

Risk analysis using EuroGTP II and reliability of the semi-automatic time-lapse annotation system Geri Assess 2.0 in embryo evaluation

Aim: To assess the risk associated with the implementation of the semi-automatic time-lapse system Geri® Assess 2.0 for the morphokinetic analysis ...

From local to global: the role of regulatory bodies for safer and more humane healthcare

With this fourth issue of our magazine we are celebrating a milestone: the awarding of the ISSN code, which marks our magazine's official entry int...

Quality under control: the new role of regulatory bodies in Swiss healthcare

From Article 58 KVG to national targets: how the relationship between quality, safety and innovation is changing In recent decades, healthcare syst...

Past, Present and Future of Umbilical Cord Blood

The first successful transplantation of umbilical cord blood (CBU - acronym for cord blood unit) was performed in 1988 in Paris, France, in a child...

The role of regulatory bodies in the health world

In the complex healthcare ecosystem, quality of care, patient safety and technological innovation do not emerge by chance: they are the result of a...

Patient safety between clinical risk management and medico-legal liability

According to the Ministry of Health, clinical risk represents the probability that a patient will suffer an adverse event attributable to the care ...

The role of regulatory bodies in the healthcare sector

Haematological Transplant Centres seeking certification from JACIE (the Joint Accreditation Committee of ISCT & EBMT) are required to provide e...

I have a dream: more 'human' healthcare in the technological age

I want, as an internist and haematologist, to talk to you about a dream of mine, a dream of a 'techno-human, or rather I would say 'human-technolog...

The role of regulatory bodies in healthcare and the supporting role of consultancy firms

Regulatory bodies in the healthcare sector play a key role in ensuring the safety, efficacy and quality of healthcare products and services...

Training, skills and innovation: the beating heart of quality in healthcare

In an era of rapid technological change and increasing complexity in health services, a central theme strongly emerges: quality cannot be separated...

Quality system in medically assisted reproduction centres

The QUALITY SYSTEM in Medically Assisted Procreation (MAP) centres aims to guarantee the safety, effectiveness and traceability of treatments. Thes...

Qualification of health personnel: foundation for quality and accreditation of health services

The quality of a healthcare organisation does not depend solely on advanced technologies or innovative protocols, but above all on the competence o...

A combined self-assessment and mentor evaluation tool for the annual training of newly recruited nurses in a Transplantation Programme oriented towards high quality care standards

he concept of competence in healthcare refers to the ability to effectively and responsibly apply theoretical knowledge and practical skills in pat...