Quality in clinical care

Quality Costs in Clinical Laboratory

Introduction: The concept quality cost for all clinical laboratories perform routine and specialized tests of any size and scope has many applications. Familiarity of managers and employees of clinical laboratories with quality cost concept prevent wasted resources and offers laboratory services with high quality to physicians, patients, and other internal and external customers with reasonable...

Quality of care: clinical governance and pathways.

On first reading, Stephen Bolsin’s editorial presents an encouraging and optimistic view of the way in which medical clinicians see their future roles and responsibilities regarding maintaining standards in Australian health care (Bolsin 2001). Referring to the Bristol case (Bolsin 1999; Hindle 1998), Bolsin says that past lapses provide "unequivocal guidance to doctors in both clinical and man...

Clinical experience and quality of health care.

Quality Department Guidelines for Clinical Care Ambulatory

Therapy of acute otitis media • Recommend adequate analgesia for all children with AOM [I, D*]. • Consider deferring antibiotic therapy for lower risk children with AOM [II, A*]. • When antibiotic therapy is deferred, facilitate patient access to antibiotics if symptoms worsen (e.g., a "back-up" prescription given at visit or a convenient system for subsequent call-in) [I, C*]. • Amoxicillin is...

Clinical Characteristics, Quality of Care, and Outcomes

Background—Because of the health impact of acute myocardial infarction (AMI), substantial resources have been dedicated to improving AMI care and outcomes. Long-term trends in the clinical characteristics, quality of care, and outcomes for AMI over time from the health system perspective in geographically diverse populations are not well known. Methods and Results—The present study included 20 ...