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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]
While a few articles appeared in this journal, most of the content consisted of organizational news stories, making it more of a news magazine than an academic journal. In 1991, the journal obtained its current title, when the association changed its name to National Association for Healthcare Quality.
BMJ Quality & Safety is a peer-reviewed healthcare journal dealing with improving patient safety and quality of care. The journal was established in 1992 as Quality in Health Care (print: ISSN 1475-3898, online: ISSN 1475-3901), subsequently became Quality & Safety in Health Care and obtained its current name in 2011.
Healthcare quality and safety require that the right information be available at the right time to support patient care and health system management decisions. Gaining consensus on essential data content and documentation standards is a necessary prerequisite for high-quality data in the interconnected healthcare system of the future.
National Quality Forum (NQF) is a United States–based non-profit membership organization that promotes patient protections and healthcare quality through measurement and public reporting. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was established in 1999 based on recommendations by the President's Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care ...
Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century is a report on health care quality in the United States published by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) on March 1, 2001. A follow-up to the frequently cited 1999 IOM patient safety report To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System , Crossing the Quality Chasm advocates for ...
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) said it still had concerns about how Newcastle's Bowland Lodge was run. It is the 10th consecutive inspection in which the home has been found to be in breach of ...
DCBA, Inc. DCBA, Inc. provides clinical audit and clinical documentation improvement programs. Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) Promoting quality for better health services, HQIP is funded by the Department of Health to increase the impact that clinical audit has on healthcare quality in England and Wales. Clinical Audit Tool ...