American Association of Electrodiagnostic Medicine Guidelines for establishing a quality assurance program in an electrodiagnostic laboratory
✍ Scribed by AAEM
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 641 KB
- Volume
- 19
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0148-639X
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✦ Synopsis
Society expects to receive quality service and physicians are expected to provide quality care to patients. Over the past two decades, many terms have been used to describe how quality of care could be improved, including medical audits, quality assurance, quality improvement, continuing quality improvement, and total quality improvement. The concept of Total Quality Management (TQM) was originally introduced by Deming2 and was recently adopted by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.
The approach to the issue of quality care in physician practice should be proactive. The goal of quality assurance is to improve patient care and satisfaction using ongoing monitoring and evaluation strategies. It is the responsibility of physicians to establish processes by which they can achieve this goal.
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