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Managing the Quality of Health Care
Journal of Health and Human Services Administration, 2002This article reviews quality of health care initiatives beginning with the quality assessment/quality assurance movement of the 1970s. Conceptually, modern quality of care management is rooted in the intellectual wort of Avedis Donabedian who defined quality of care as, a combination of structure, process, and outcome.
James S, Larson, Andreas, Muller
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Acta medica portuguesa, 2001
Quality assurance is a relatively recent concern but already plays a major role in health care management and provision. Quality involves the definition of a comprehensive programme tailored by realistic and effective objectives and norms that include the structured review of procedures (namely clinical audits) and the use of up-to-date protocols.
J L, Medina, P C, De Melo
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Quality assurance is a relatively recent concern but already plays a major role in health care management and provision. Quality involves the definition of a comprehensive programme tailored by realistic and effective objectives and norms that include the structured review of procedures (namely clinical audits) and the use of up-to-date protocols.
J L, Medina, P C, De Melo
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Measuring the Quality of Health Care
New England Journal of Medicine, 1971IT is no news that the quality of health care in the United States is often called "inadequate," with the descriptors ranging (±2 S.D.) from "catastrophic" to "spotty." Although a host of distressf...
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Consumers' Descriptions of Quality Health Care
Journal of Nursing Care Quality, 1999Consumer-oriented health care report cards have emerged as a strategy to disseminate information to consumers about the quality of health plans and relative costs, with the goal of enabling them to make informed choices. While consumers have reported an interest in having access to this information, how they actually define quality of care is not yet ...
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[Quality of and quality assurance in health care preventive health care].
Medicinski arhiv, 2003Quality 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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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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Multidisciplinary women’s health care and quality of care
Women's Health Issues, 2000Multidisciplinary women's health centers have appeared in academic and community settings throughout the United States as a response to the historical fragmentation of women's health care. This paper addresses the influence of this model for comprehensive primary care on quality of care for women.
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The International Journal of Artificial Organs, 1998
According to a recent definition, quality of care consists of the degree to which health services increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes and are consistent with current professional knowledge; a definition that introduces both requirements of outcomes and the appropriateness of the process used.
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According to a recent definition, quality of care consists of the degree to which health services increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes and are consistent with current professional knowledge; a definition that introduces both requirements of outcomes and the appropriateness of the process used.
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