Improvement in the quality of healthcare is desired by everyone. Delivering this however, is
hindered by lack of clear, widely embraced perceptions of what is encompassed within …

Quality in healthcare in the United Kingdom: lessons for Australia Page 1 H'ALTHCAR'
Quality in healthcare in the United Kingdom: lessons for Australia John M Duggan The United …

This article outlines the why, what and how of quality improvement with the aim of
encouraging readers to move 'beyond audit'to undertake high calibre quality improvement …

Quality improvement in health care is highly topical, but definitions of quality are contested
and many healthcare organisations struggle to achieve lasting changes in routine practice …

Abstract In late 2003, New Zealand's Ministry of Health published a 'systems approach'to
help guide and plan quality improvements in the nation's health and disability sector. This …

Observers of British health care could be forgiven for thinking that quality assurance was
invented in the 1980s. This paper aims to demonstrate that although the term was rarely …

PUBLISHED IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE NUFFIELD TRUST Quality is an issue of central
importance in the NHS and yet, despite a considerable number of initiatives, programmes …

In this third article in the Series on quality improvement, we examine the'effectiveness'
dimension of healthcare quality. To satisfy this dimension, two equally important facets must …

The questions most frequently asked about quality assurance are whether well-established
practices already form adequate safeguards of quality of medical care or whether …

Quality improvement in health care is a structured analysis of a health-care system with a
view to improving its performance. This review describes the history of quality improvement …