Quality of Care and Quality Assurance

Medical Audit ◽  
2001 ◽  
pp. 26-26
Author(s):  
Anjan Prakash
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Quality Of Care

Improving Quality of Care through Risk Management Knowledge Transfer and Quality Assurance in Nursing Care

2012 ◽  
pp. 233-241
Author(s):  
Kleopatra Alamantariotou
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Risk Management ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Quality Of Care ◽  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Nursing Care ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Careful Consideration

The purpose of this chapter is to provide innovative knowledge and creative ideas of improving quality of care and to explore how risk management and Knowledge transfer and quality assurance can improve health care. Under careful consideration, our purpose is to summarize which factors improve and promote the quality of care and which factors diminish quality. There are forms of ongoing efforts to make performance better. Quality improvement must be a long-term, continuous effort, reducing errors and providing a safe trust environment for health professionals and patients. After reading this chapter, you should know the answer to these questions: What role can risk management and knowledge transfer play in quality of care? How can risk management and knowledge transfer work together? What are the factors that improve risk management and quality assurance in health care? How does knowledge transfer support, inform, and improve care?

Quality of Care and Quality Assurance

Medical Audit ◽  
2011 ◽  
pp. 28-28
Author(s):  
Anjan Prakash ◽  
Deepali Bhardwaj
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Quality Of Care

From Values to Virtue: The Basis for Quality of Care

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 50-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yvonne Näsman, ◽  
Lisbet Nyström, ◽  
Katie Eriksson,
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Quality Of Care ◽  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Basic Concept ◽  
Quality Assurance Program ◽  
General Nature ◽  
Fundamental Idea ◽  
Model Combining

The aim of this article is to discuss the conceptual connections between virtue, ethics, and quality of care, suggesting that there is a profound connection between virtue and quality. Virtue is discussed as a basic concept in caritative caring ethics, reflecting on the fundamental idea of quality, resulting in a model combining the two of them. This forms a solid basis for any quality assurance program and is, thus, of an abstract, general nature.

Analyzing Errors in Practice: A Vehicle for Assessing and Enhancing the Quality of Care

1992 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan S. Deusinger
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Quality Of Care ◽  
Physical Therapy ◽  
Patient Care ◽  
Enhance Patient Care

AbstractFailures are inevitable in health care. When failure occurs as a result of practitioner error, quality in patient care may be compromised. This article proposes that analyzing clinical errors may contribute to quality assurance. Examples from physical therapy illustrate how information gained from analyzing errors can enhance patient care.

Quality Assurance in Australian Hospitals: How Far Does it Go?

1988 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 97-101
Author(s):  
Manoa Renwick
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Quality Of Care ◽  
Medical Record ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Research Strategy ◽  
Australian Institute ◽  
Hospital Patients ◽  
Acute Hospitals

The Australian Institute of Health (AIH) surveyed all acute hospitals in Australia to discover the extent of quality assurance (QA) activities, the types of programs being run and the processes being used. This paper explains the Institute's research strategy and puts the survey into the context of QA in Australia today. It describes the research method, identifies sources of bias, and presents some of the results. These show that medical record administrators (MRAs) play an active role in QA by coordinating hospital programs, by implementing individual reviews of their own departments, and by servicing other departmental reviews. The results pertaining to the extent and nature of QA are discussed and it is concluded that there seems to be some review of the quality of care for the majority of hospital patients. The effectiveness of that review, and whether or not it is quality assurance, still has to be investigated. (AMRJ 1988, 18(3), 97–101).

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