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Measuring Health Care Quality

Pediatrics in Review, 1988
Quality has become a headline issue in American health care. The topic has drawn the attention of professional societies, purchaser groups, regulators, and patient advocacy organizations, and questions about quality are becoming, in one form or another, part of the daily life of the doctor.
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Service Quality in Health Care

JAMA, 1999
Although US health care is described as "the world's largest service industry," the quality of service--that is, the characteristics that shape the experience of care beyond technical competence--is rarely discussed in the medical literature. This article illustrates service quality principles by analyzing a routine encounter in health care from a ...
J W, Kenagy, D M, Berwick, M F, Shore
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Defining Quality in Health Care

Military Medicine, 1992
The difficulty and importance of developing and implementing a definition of quality in health care is discussed. Some current definitions are considered, and a recommended definition of quality health care is presented.
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Measurement of quality in health care

Neurology, 1998
Despite 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.
D J, Lanska, A J, Hartz
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Reflections on Quality Health Care

Nursing Administration Quarterly, 2003
The author, a JCAHO Codman Award recipient, reflects on her professional career in the area of health care quality and describes how nurses have been leaders in the study and improvement of health care quality. Nursing's contributions to the development of quality of care measures, guidelines, and standardized languages are described and current and ...
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Quality of health care. Part 2: Measuring quality of care

Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, 1997
Until recently, we relied primarily on professional judgment to ensure that patients received high-quality medical care.
R H, Brook, E A, McGlynn, P D, Cleary
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Quality health care

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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Specifying Quality in Health Care

Journal of Management in Medicine, 1994
Quality should be a central issue in the commissioning and provision of health care. This requires a systematic approach to defining and monitoring quality. Such an approach should address: quality characteristics such as efficiency, accessibility, effectiveness (which may conflict with each other); the several levels at which quality may be specified,
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Small and big quality in health care

International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, 2015
Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to clarify healthcare quality’s ontological and epistemological foundations; and examine how these lead to different measurements and technologies.Design/methodology/approach– Conceptual analysis.Findings– Small quality denotes conformance toex anterequirements.
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Quality of health care delivered to adults in the United States.

New England Journal of Medicine, 2003
P. Basch
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