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JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1977
To the Editor.— The special communication by Dr W. E. Mitchell entitled "How to Deal With Poor Medical Care" (236:2875, 1976) describes two examples of poor medical care. Dr A performs too many unnecessary appendectomies. Dr B performs unrecognized or inappropriate procedures. The diagnosis of acute appendicitis is sometimes difficult to make because
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To the Editor.— The special communication by Dr W. E. Mitchell entitled "How to Deal With Poor Medical Care" (236:2875, 1976) describes two examples of poor medical care. Dr A performs too many unnecessary appendectomies. Dr B performs unrecognized or inappropriate procedures. The diagnosis of acute appendicitis is sometimes difficult to make because
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JAMA, 1988
This article offers a definition of quality medical care. Quality itself is defined not as consisting of the properties of an object but rather as the capacity of these properties to achieve goals. Accordingly, quality medical care is the capacity of the elements of that care to achieve legitimate medical and nonmedical goals.
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This article offers a definition of quality medical care. Quality itself is defined not as consisting of the properties of an object but rather as the capacity of these properties to achieve goals. Accordingly, quality medical care is the capacity of the elements of that care to achieve legitimate medical and nonmedical goals.
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2010
The past 2 decades have seen unprecedented advances in medicine and technology. However, the health care system continues to perform far below acceptable levels for ensuring safety and addressing patient needs. The publication To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System from the Institute of Medicine galvanized health care system response and the ...
Andrew Majka, Prathibha Varkey
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The past 2 decades have seen unprecedented advances in medicine and technology. However, the health care system continues to perform far below acceptable levels for ensuring safety and addressing patient needs. The publication To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System from the Institute of Medicine galvanized health care system response and the ...
Andrew Majka, Prathibha Varkey
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Quality management in medical laboratories
Hämostaseologie, 2010SummaryDuring the 20th century understanding for quality has changed and international and national requirements for quality have been published. Therefore also medical branches started to establish quality management systems. Quality assurance has always been important for medical laboratories.
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Defining Quality in Medical Care
Health Affairs, 1988Prologue: The quality of medical care rendered by physicians in and outside of hospitals has become a subject of increasing public and, more recently, private-sector concern.
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Quality assurance of medical software
Journal of Medical Engineering & Technology, 1994Quality assurance is a topical issue within the software industry, and various methodological solutions aimed at improving software quality have been proposed. Medical software is generally deemed safety-critical and, as such, should be subject to control procedures exceeding those applicable to general-purpose software.
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Medical Residencies: Quantity or Quality?
Annals of Internal Medicine, 1989Excerpt Every March 15 since 1985 the internal medicine community has read the residency match results in much the same way priests read entrails millenia ago: to interpret the past and to prognost...
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Quality Assurance of Medical Ontologies
Methods of Information in Medicine, 2006Summary Objective: To review the literature concerning the quality assurance of medical ontologies. Methods: scholar.google.com was searched using the search strings (+ontology +”quality assurance”) and (+ontology +”evaluation/evaluating”). Relevant publications were selected by manual
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Billing Quality Is Medical Quality
JAMA, 2020Simon C, Mathews, Martin A, Makary
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Quality medication administration.
Contemporary nurse, 2002Quality medication administration is not simply a matter of adhering to the 'five rights'. The nurses' role in medication management is influenced by a multitude of factors not always within their control. Yet nurses maintain a duty of care to uphold safe and appropriate nursing interventions in pursuit of quality drug use.
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