Avedis Donabedian: father of quality assurance and poet.

Commentary on some studies of the quality of care

This essay is a personal commentary on general aspects of quality assessment that are either illustrated or challenged by the articles presented in this volume. It is not a critique of the individual papers in the collection; papers are mentioned in order to illustrate or clarify a point, without implication of either merit or demerit. This article addresses the definitions of quality, the rela...

Evaluating the Quality of Medical Care

This paper is an attempt to describe and evaluate current methods for assessing the quality of medical care and to suggest some directions for further study. It is concerned with methods rather than findings, and with an evaluation of methodology in general, rather than a detailed critique of methods in specific studies. This is not an exhaustive review of the pertinent literature. Certain key ...

The Economic Impact of Raising the State Tax on Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products in Michigan

Quality assurance in our health care system.

A Comparative Study of Parvin Etesami’s Poetry and Yousef Etesam al-Molk’s Works

Parvin-e E`tesami, the daughter of Yousef E`tesami, was one of the eminent poets of the constitutional period. Her father, E`tesam al-Molk was a remarkable intellectual. He was one of the very first translators and one of the writers whose work started Romanticism in Iran in the last years of Qajar dynasty. He translated pieces from a vast range of topics and, thus, he had an undeniable role in...