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  2. Health care quality - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act - Wikipedia

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    Traditional state-based legal protections for such health care quality improvement activities, collectively known as peer review protections, are limited in scope: They do not exist in all States; typically they only apply to peer review in hospitals and do not cover other health care settings, and seldom enable health care systems to pool data ...

  4. Clinical peer review - Wikipedia

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    The American Nurses Association published the first definition of nursing peer review in 1988. [11] It includes the following statements: The American Nurses Association believes nurses bare primary responsibility and accountability for the quality of nursing care their clients receive.

  5. Clinical audit - Wikipedia

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    "a quality improvement process that seeks to improve patient care and outcomes through systematic review of care against explicit criteria and the implementation of change. Aspects of the structure, processes, and outcomes of care are selected and systematically evaluated against explicit criteria.

  6. Donabedian model - Wikipedia

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    Although it is widely recognized and applied in many health care related fields, the Donabedian Model was developed to assess quality of care in clinical practice. [7] The model does not have an implicit definition of quality care so that it can be applied to problems of broad or narrow scope. [6]

  7. Healthcare Quality Improvement Act - Wikipedia

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    The Healthcare Quality Improvement Act of 1986 (HCQIA) of the United States was introduced by Congressman Ron Wyden from Oregon. ( Title 42 of the United States Code , Sections 11101 - 11152) It followed a federal antitrust suit by a surgeon against an Astoria hospital and members of its clinic in which he claimed antitrust actions were ...

  8. Patient safety - Wikipedia

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    A quality improvement review is an evaluation that is completed after an adverse event occurs with the intention to both fix the problem as well as prevent it from happening again. [41] The individual provinces and territories have laws on whether it is required to disclose the quality improvement review to the patient.

  9. Clinical governance - Wikipedia

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    A framework through which NHS organisations are accountable for continually improving the quality of their services and safeguarding high standards of care by creating an environment in which excellence in clinical care will flourish. [1] This definition is intended to embody three key attributes: recognisably high standards of care ...