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Managing Service Quality: An International Journal, 1991
Describes how a Bristol‐based health authority has established its own TQM approach for continuous improvement of patient care and customer service. Presents the components of their TQM strategy ‐ ′Towards Total Quality′, together with the key opportunities and obstacles inherent in implementing TQM.
H. Koch, A. Lloyd, B. Dawson
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Describes how a Bristol‐based health authority has established its own TQM approach for continuous improvement of patient care and customer service. Presents the components of their TQM strategy ‐ ′Towards Total Quality′, together with the key opportunities and obstacles inherent in implementing TQM.
H. Koch, A. Lloyd, B. Dawson
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JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1996
A new reality is emerging as cost limits are set for health care: quality of care is becoming a major concern to payers and patients. Increasingly, employers and state and federal governments pay fixed premiums per enrollee to managed care organizations (MCOs), who then pay physicians by mechanisms designed to limit use of service; the question ...
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A new reality is emerging as cost limits are set for health care: quality of care is becoming a major concern to payers and patients. Increasingly, employers and state and federal governments pay fixed premiums per enrollee to managed care organizations (MCOs), who then pay physicians by mechanisms designed to limit use of service; the question ...
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JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1993
There is a fragile connection between the new knowledge generated by medical research and the care given to patients at the bedside. Physicians may not hear about or accept new findings; they may not know how or when to use them; and the health systems in which they practice may not support the implementation of new knowledge.
Glenn Laffel, Donald M. Berwick
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There is a fragile connection between the new knowledge generated by medical research and the care given to patients at the bedside. Physicians may not hear about or accept new findings; they may not know how or when to use them; and the health systems in which they practice may not support the implementation of new knowledge.
Glenn Laffel, Donald M. Berwick
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JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1993
Quality Management in Health Care , Glenn Laffel, editor, quarterly, $129, Rockville, Md, Aspen Publishers Inc, fall 1992-. Virtually every discipline and field of study has been touched in some way by the concept and study of total quality management, continuous quality improvement, and other similar programs, which derive a canon from operations ...
Joseph F. O'Donnell, Daniel T. Richards
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Quality Management in Health Care , Glenn Laffel, editor, quarterly, $129, Rockville, Md, Aspen Publishers Inc, fall 1992-. Virtually every discipline and field of study has been touched in some way by the concept and study of total quality management, continuous quality improvement, and other similar programs, which derive a canon from operations ...
Joseph F. O'Donnell, Daniel T. Richards
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Quality of Health and Health Care
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1995The demise of federal efforts at health care system reform produced a number of losers. The non—Medicaid-eligible poor will continue to struggle for adequate access to appropriate health care, particularly preventive and primary care services. Academic health centers will be adversely affected by the unwillingness of managed care organizations to pay a
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Appropriate quality in health care
Health Policy, 1987The President of the United States visited The College of Physicians of Philadelphia on April 1, 1987 to participate in the celebration of the Bicentennial of the College’s founding by 24 Colonial physicians to promote the advancement of the profession and its contributions to society.
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Measurement of quality in health care
Neurology, 1998Despite the lack of a generally accepted definition of quality health care, numerous tools purporting to measure quality are being developed and disseminated, similar to the example described by Hinchey et al. in this issue.1 The interest in quality assessment is being driven by several forces.
Douglas J. Lanska, Arthur J. Hartz
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"Caring" as Part of Health Care Quality
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1975The subjective aspects of "caring" are an important part of health care quality and should be understood in the context of the illness-recovery process and the physician-patient relationship. "Caring" requires sensitivity on the part of the physician to the role of illness in our society and to the emotional component of illness in every patient.
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Health Care Technology and Quality of Care
Quality Assurance and Utilization Review, 1987The increasing costs and complexity of technologic advances in diagnosis and treatment have been ac companied by other important issues. They are often moral or ethical in nature; they include the public's desire and determination to have access to these "high-tech" advances; and the quality and equity with which those advances are apportioned and ...
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Quality Measures in Health Care
Health Marketing Quarterly, 1996This article discusses measurement of quality in health care. The authors attempt to answer the following questions: why measure quality, and what will quality measurement do? The current quality measurement system is described including definitions of the measurable aspects of health care and current measurement tools.
Ray Sherer, Donald R. Self
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