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Quality Assurance in Health Care
The American Journal of Nursing, 1977If each individual American has a right to quality medical care, then the medical profession must supply that care. But how are the standards of quality to be defined, and who will do it? Can quality care be rendered at a cost that will not bankrupt insurers, both private and governmental?
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Assuring Quality of Health Care
Evaluation & the Health Professions, 1983This article reviews currently used quality assurance techniques. It assumes a broad definition of quality that includes attention to the content and professional judgment exercised in the provision of health services, as well as the appropriateness of resource utilization.
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Secondments in Health Care Quality Assurance
International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, 1994Describes different types of secondment in quality assurance. Addresses the social and occupational characteristics of the associated roles. Demonstrates that the benefits of secondment outweigh the limitations. Suggests that changes in the health care system are providing continuous scope for secondment and that this, therefore, should be taken ...
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Quality Assurance in Mental Health Care
Psychiatric Services, 1988Quality assurance activities, in place at all institutions accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and many other agencies, are sure to play an increasing role in the mental health care field. This paper familiarizes mental health professionals with the terminology and activities of quality assurance and how they
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Quality Assurance and Managed Mental Health Care
Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 1990Quality assurance demands that health professionals meet the timeless mandate of helping (when we can) and doing no harm. The delivery of quality care has been profoundly influenced by systems of managed care, which may represent the principal trend in organized medicine in the 1980s. This chapter first defines quality and quality assurance.
Lloyd I. Sederer, R L St Clair
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Health Care Quality Assurance Terminology
International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, 1988The theory and practice of Quality Assurance in Health is drawn from and involves many disciplines and professions. The dangers of imprecisions in the use of terms can lead to confusion. The glossary prepared by the author aims to provide a firm foundation of definition, thereby avoiding squabbles over semantics.
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QUDOS: A Quality Assurance System for Health Care
International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, 1993Describes a system of quality assurance for use by either purchasers or providers of health care services. The system has been in operation since 1991 and is compatible with registration to BS 5750.
Malcolm Wain, John Smith
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An Introduction to Quality Assurance in Health Care
International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 2003Oxford University Press, 2002 0-19-515809-1; 240 pp; $37.95 Hb, $32.25 Pb It would seem that any discussion about almost any issue in recent times has had to have the word ‘quality’ peppered liberally throughout the exchange. This apparent obsession with a concept that many have argued has no universal language with which to define it has all too ...
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Continued Competence: Assuring Quality Health Care
American Journal of Nursing, 1999Surses have long championed the cause of high-quality health care. They were the first provider group to argue before policy makers that it wasn't enough to provide universal access to health care; it must also be of the highest quality. In recent years, patients and consumers have concurred by educating themselves about our system of health care ...
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