Quality assurance in critical care

Quality Assurance in Critical Care

Quality assurance in our health care system.

Quality assurance in long term care.

apies, and death and dying. The book concludes with a discussion of future practice directions, which are concep tualized in terms of a system of com· munity-hased care. Occupational therapists will find this book useful as a basic resource on common psychological/psychiatric disorders of the elderly. The underlying philosophy supponing self-sufficiency is compatible with occupational therapy. ...

Quality assurance and the palliative care team.

In the rapidly developing area of palliative care, it is essential that nurses ensure the service they offer to their patients is underpinned by robust quality mechanisms. In striving to improve the standards of care offered to patients and their families, nurses should utilise models of quality in their practice, for example, Maxwell's model of quality ( Maxwell 1984 ) ( Box 1 ).

Quality-assurance research: studying processes of care.

To conduct a successful research study, several criteria must be satisfied: the research question must be important (not only to the investigators but to clinicians and managers in other institutions); the research question must be answerable with the available resources; the investigators must be motivated and capable; and the research setting must be appropriate for the study (the institution...