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Quality Assurance and Managed Mental Health Care

Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 1990
Quality 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.
L I, Sederer, R L, St Clair
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Assuring the quality of health care

1993
Abstract The quality of medical and health care is becoming an increasingly visible public issue in a number of countries (17,425,428,469,475,553,642,618). While the overall results of advances in health care seem relatively clear, there is considerable evidence that optimal care is not being given, based on available studies.
H David Banta, Bryan R Luce
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QUDOS: A Quality Assurance System for Health Care

International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, 1993
Describes 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.
J, Smith, M, Wain
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QUALITY ASSURANCE AND EFFECTIVENESS IN HEALTH CARE: AN OVERVIEW

International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 1990
Increasing interest in quality assurance and effectiveness in health care has been generated by three major things: about 20% of care is consistently demonstrated to be inappropriate, variations in practice cannot be explained by patient or facility factors, and decreased utilization as a result of changing economic and regulatory incentives seems to ...
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Continued Competence: Assuring Quality Health Care

American Journal of Nursing, 1999
Surses 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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The Historical Precedents for Quality Assurance in Health Care

The American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 1983
Abstract The evolution of quality assurance as an essential component of a scientific, objective approach to health care delivery, and its implications for the profession of occupational therapy are presented. A review is made of the economic, ethical, psychological, and legislative forces that have influenced the development of quality ...
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[Quality of and quality assurance in health care preventive health care].

Medicinski arhiv, 2003
Quality in healthcare and healthcare protection represents one from the most complex characteristics of the state and functioning of healthcare system. In fact, the quality represents the responsibility of all the components/participants of the system: inhabitants, actual patients, the potentional patients, decisions makers, purchasors and the ...
Izet, Masić, Dragana, Niksić
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An Introduction to Quality Assurance in Health Care

International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 2003
Oxford 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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Quality assurance in health care

Medical Journal of Australia, 1991
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Quality Assurance in Health‐care Education

Quality Assurance in Education, 1994
Discusses the need for health‐care education to address the issue of quality at a school‐based level in light of future funding arrangements and the need to maintain professional standards. Identifies the key stakeholders in health‐care education and the interface with higher education quality assurance processes.
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