Quality in Health Care: Whose Responsibility Is It?

Quality in health care: whose responsibility is it?

* This paper was commissioned for the CME Seminar held under the auspices of the American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians, Clearwater, Florida, February 1216, 1992, but the author is solely responsible for the opinions expressed in it. t To whom requests for reprints should be addressed at 1739 Ivywood, Ann Arbor, MI 48103. My subject is billed as &dquo;Quality-Whos...

Health promotion: whose responsibility is it?

Oncology nurses often educate patients and encourage them to adopt a healthy lifestyle. Where does this responsibility begin and end? Another new year is upon us. Human nature encourages people to strive to do better. Consequently, each new year, millions of people resolve to make changes in their lives. This year I will . . . stop smoking, eat better, walk more, get a mammogram, reduce stress,...

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Quality in nursing home care: whose responsibility?

Long term care for elderly people in the United Kingdom is increasingly provided by nursing homes in the independent sector. Between 1983 and 1994 the number of National Health Service (NHS) continuing care beds fell from 55 600 to 37 500 and the number of nursing home beds rose from 18 200 to 148 500.' With an estimated one in four people over 85 currently receiving institutional care' and pro...

Breaking bad news - whose responsibility is it?

This module considers different aspects of communicating a cancer diagnosis to the patient. Using a UK study, it looks at who breaks bad news in cancer care, frameworks for breaking bad news and the role of nurses.