Managerial attitude to the implementation of quality management systems in Lithuanian support treatment and nursing hospitals.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The regulations of the Quality Management System (QMS) implementation in health care organizations were approved by the Lithuanian Ministry of Health in 1998. Following the above regulations, general managers of health care organizations had to initiate the QMS implementation in hospitals. As no research on the QMS implementation has been carried out in Lithuanian support treatment and nursing hospitals since, the objective of this study is to assess its current stage from a managerial perspective.

Methods

A questionnaire survey of general managers of Lithuanian support treatment and nursing hospitals was carried out in the period of January through March 2005. Majority of the items included in the questionnaire were measured on a seven-point Likert scale. During

SUBMITTER: Buciuniene I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1592079 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature