Bmc Health Serv Res
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Bmc Health Serv Res · Nov 2020
EditorialBMC health services research title: the 2020 blast in the port of Beirut: can the Lebanese health system "build back better"?
The August 2020 explosion in Lebanon resulted in casualties, injuries, and a great number of internally displaced persons. The blast occurred during an economically and politically complex time in the country. Given multiple and competing post-explosion reconstruction priorities, in ths editorial we briefly examine the requirements for a build back better scenario.
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Bmc Health Serv Res · Jan 2015
EditorialConfronting the quality paradox: towards new characterisations of 'quality' in contemporary healthcare.
This editorial introduces the special Biomed Central cross-journal collection The Many Meanings of 'Quality' in Healthcare: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, setting out the context for the development of the collection, and presenting brief summaries of all the included papers in three broad themes 1) the practices of assuring quality in healthcare 2) giving 'space to the story' 3) addressing moral complexity in the clinic, the classroom and the academy. The editorial concludes with reflections on some of the key messages that emerge from the papers which are relevant to policymakers and practitioners who seek to improve the quality of healthcare.