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Clinical quality management systems (CQMS) are systems used in the life sciences sector (primarily in the pharmaceutical, biologics and medical device industries) designed to manage quality management best practices throughout clinical research and clinical study management. A CQMS system is designed to manage all of the documents, activities ...
Health care quality is the degree to which health care services for individuals and populations increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes. [2] Quality of care plays an important role in describing the iron triangle of health care relationships between quality, cost, and accessibility of health care within a community. [3]
In addition to examining quality within a healthcare delivery unit, the Donabedian model is applicable to the structure and process for treating certain diseases and conditions with the aim to improve the quality of chronic disease management. For example, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a condition with significant morbidity and ...
DNV GL Healthcare; Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy (FACT) [4] Global Healthcare Accreditation (GHA) [5] Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program (HFAP) Healthcare Quality Association on Accreditation (HQAA) Institute for Medical Quality (IMQ) Joint Commission (TJC) National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)
It was established as the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) in 1989 as a constituent unit of the Public Health Service (PHS) to enhance the quality, appropriateness, and effectiveness of health care services and access to care by conducting and supporting research, demonstration projects, and evaluations; developing guidelines ...
Ministries of health in several sub-Saharan African countries, including Zambia, Uganda, and South African, were reported to have begun planning health system reform including hospital accreditation before 2002. However, most hospitals in Africa are administered by local health ministries or missionary organizations without accreditation programs.
Dr. Paul Starr suggests in his analysis of the American healthcare system (i.e., The Social Transformation of American Medicine) that Richard Nixon, advised by the "father of Health Maintenance Organizations", Dr. Paul M. Ellwood Jr., was the first mainstream political leader to take deliberate steps to change American health care from its ...
The generic model used in the United States is the chronic care model, which holds that health care does not only involve change in the patient and that high-quality disease care counts the community, the health system, self-management support, delivery system design, decision support, and clinical information systems as important elements in ...