A Fresh Look at Quality Assurance: Is Integrated Research Quality Assurance Possible?

An old look at quality assurance.

The medical-hospital-regulatory complex has perhaps gone too far in the amount of energy and money devoted to data gathering. If the intent of all of this effort is to benefit patient care, it seems fair to ask whether or not the right kind of data is being accumulated. This paper raises the question and points out that the appropriate questions were asked 85 years ago, and remain largely unans...

Quality Assurance Whose Quality and Whose Assurance?

Government involvement in quality assurance is becoming the trend in many countries, including New Zealand. What values underpin the systems that evolve in each country, and who has given legitimacy to them? In the context of the prevailing ideology of early childhood, this paper unpacks quality assurance in Australia and comments on the assumptions, taken for granted premises and values which ...

Quality Assurance

Quality assurance.

Any facility or program operated by the Office of Mental Health shall restrict the use of personal cell phones, recording devices, and wireless devices on the grounds of such facility or program, as set forth in this policy directive, provided, however, that the use of personally owned cell phones, recording devices, and wireless devices within forensic and secure facilities or units shall be i...

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...