Introducing quality assurance into long-term care for elderly people: a difficult and worthwhile process?
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Introducing quality assurance into long-term care for elderly people: a difficult and worthwhile process?
Improving quality of care in long term care homes could enhance the lives of many elderly people. Traditional inspection procedures, although preventing substandard care, have limited ability to increase residential quality of life. 2 A new generation of quality assurance procedures has the potential to change everyday practice in homes:' but the procedures also potentially pose problems. They ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Quality and Safety in Health Care
سال: 1997
ISSN: 1475-3898,1475-3901
DOI: 10.1136/qshc.6.3.153