Disease Management Approaches to Quality Improvement

Approaches of Iranian Medical Universities to Quality Management in Education

Introduction: Universities of medical sciences in Iran have recently employed different quality management approaches according to their own reasoning. They include accreditation, total quality management (TQM), suggestion system, ISO 9000, and productivity. This study aimed to identify chosen approaches in Iranian Medical universities and clarify the reasons of selection as well as practical m...

Performance of quality improvement offices in hospitals: Challenges and Approaches

Introduction: Identifying the challenges of Quality Improvement Offices (QIOs) not only helps in planning the quality of hospital services and in trying to provide a suitable solution to solve the problems of these offices but also plays an important role in strengthening the offices and increasing the quality of clinical and non-clinical services of hospitals. This study aimed to investigate t...

Health care quality-improvement approaches to reducing child health disparities.

Relatively few quality-improvement efforts have been aimed at reducing differences in children's care and outcomes across race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and insurance status. To inform quality-improvement efforts to reduce child health disparities, we summarize lessons learned from the adult disparities-intervention literature, identify interventions that have reduced disparities in ...

Quality Improvement through Quality Requirements Management

not taken into account properly [13]. In fact, there As the degree of compliance of quality requirements mainly induces the acceptance and success of a system, special emphasis should be laid on the elicitation, specification and validation of quality requirements. Current requirements definition methods, however, mainly focus on objects, functions, and states. This paper emphasizes quality req...

On-site Approaches to Quality Improvement in Quality Rating and Improvement Systems: Building on the Research on Coaching