Quality in health care: Whose responsibility is it?

A Donabedian - American Journal of Medical Quality, 1993 - journals.lww.com
I would like us to agree on a number of things:(a) the meaning of quality in health care;(b)
the relevant actors or players; and (c) the configuration of the stage or playing field. I believe …

Public service quality: Lessons not learned

A Wright - Total Quality Management, 1997 - Taylor & Francis
To understand our present perceptions of qualityÐwhat it is, and how we set about trying to
achieve itÐwe must look back at the history of the quality movement, and in particular …

[图书][B] Quality Improvement in Healthcare: Putting evidence into practice

K Parsley, P Corrigan - 1999 - books.google.com
A practical multidisciplinary approach to the improvement of the quality of clinical practice. It
attempts to assist individuals or groups of clinicians to work togther to improve their local …

Evolution and implementation of a quality improvement programme: a case study of two health care organizations

YA Debrah - Total Quality Management, 1994 - Taylor & Francis
Since the early 1980s, there has been an interest in quality improvement in the National
Health Service (NHS) in the UK. A number of District Health Authorities (DHAs) in response …

Total quality management in public health care: a study of Italian and Irish hospitals

P Adinolfi - Total Quality Management & Business Excellence, 2003 - Taylor & Francis
It has been said that, of all the inventions, innovations and initiatives affecting health care
organizations worldwide over the past few years, perhaps none has been more influential or …

Success through organisational audit.

T Brooks - Health Services Management, 1992 - europepmc.org
In the April issue of Health Services Management, Tessa Brooks discussed the
appropriateness of total quality management to the NHS. Here she describes a means of …

[引用][C] Values and Practices of Quality Management-Health implications and organisational differences

Y Lagrosen - 2006 - Chalmers University of Technology

[HTML][HTML] The meaning of quality work from the general practitioner's perspective: an interview study

EL Strandberg, I Ovhed, A Håkansson, M Troein - BMC Family Practice, 2006 - Springer
Background The quality of health care and its costs have been a subject of considerable
attention and lively discussion. Various methods have been introduced to measure, assess …

The quest for quality in the English NHS: strategic and policy issues

S Leatherman, K Sutherland - Journal of Health Services …, 2004 - journals.sagepub.com
Measuring and improving quality in health care has become a prominent policy imperative
across the world. After taking power in 1997, the UK Labour government, set out to place …

Managing quality in local government and the health service

K Davies, P Hinton - Public Money & Management, 1993 - Taylor & Francis
The terms' quality,'quality assurance'and'total quality management'have become
fashionable in local government and the health service. Preliminary research to assess …