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THE REGULATION OF MEDICAL DEVICES AND QUALITY OF MEDICAL CARE
International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 1990Medical devices are now a pervasive part of modern medical care. They are in many cases associated with quality of care. In some cases, the use of devices has certainly improved quality. In other cases, devices can be associated with many problems. The approach to quality of devices has depended largely on regulation.
Banta, H.D., Beekum, W.T. van
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The Quality of Medical Evidence: Implications for Quality of Care
Health Affairs, 1988Prologue: Most of the proposals advanced in the 1980s for rationalizing the use of medical care derived chiefly from an economic model —more consumer cost sharing, the development of alternative health delivery systems, and new financial incentives. One of the working assumptions of the analysts and policymakers who designed these proposals was that ...
D M, Eddy, J, Billings
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Quality in Medical Translations: A Review
Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 2007Despite a growing number of U.S. citizens who do not speak English fluently, little literature attends to issues of accurate translation of medical documents. We conducted a systematic review of the World Wide Web and electronic library resources to identify sources on translating clinical and medical research documents.
Daniela, Garcia-Castillo +1 more
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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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Medical diagnostic and data quality
Proceedings of 15th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2002), 2003The spread of electronic use of data in various areas has pushed the importance of data quality to a higher level. Data quality has syntactic and semantic components; the syntactic component is relatively easy to achieve if supported by tools (either off-the-shelf or our own), while the semantic component requires more research. In many cases such data
Tatjana Welzer +3 more
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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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The quality of medical records in teleconsultation
Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, 2003We collected and examined the medical records from telemedicine cases dealt with by the telemedicine centre of Shanghai Hospital No. 85. This centre handles the second largest number of teleconsultations in the entire network. There were 658 telemedicine cases in total.
Ping, Lian +3 more
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