W rith regard to the article" Quality of care: 1. What is quality and how can it be
measured?"(Can Med Assoc J 1992; 146: 2153-2158), by the Health Services Research …

MORE THAN 800 persons attended the national conference in Los Angeles on March 15 to
17 to participate in discussions which dealt with the various components and elements …

Quality of Medical Care Page 1 Quality of Medical Care WP DEARING, MD, Washington. D. C.
IN OPENING a discussion of quality-that much sought after and much-to-be-desired attribute of …

A 1974 policy statement of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences,"
Advancing the Quality of Health Care," presents the conclusions of a committee charged …

Quality assurance in health care is about making sure that the service is being provided to a
level that has been defined according to pre-determined criteria and standards. A major …

We outline the implementation of a new method of measuring the quality of medical care that
counts cases of unnecessary disease and disability and unnecessary untimely deaths. First …

I. Introduction££/^'UALITY" in Health Care is a" moveable^ feast". It is a shifting concept
determined by prevailing societal values and subject to the vagaries of public opinion …

Patient care has two components: technical and interpersonal. The quality of technical
management depends on the balance of its expected benefits and risks. The quality of the …

I shall consider the quality of care to be proportional to its ability to achieve desired
improvements in health and well-being under circumstances that are pleasing to its …

Before assessment can begin we must decide how quality is to be defined and that depends
on whether one assesses only the performance of practitioners or also the contributions of …