Between Evidence - Based Practice and Total Quality Management: The Implementation of Cost-Effective Care
- Topics:
- Total Quality Management
- Tags:
- Business Operations,
- It Operations,
- Patient,
- Quality,
- Total Quality Management,
- Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000,
- University Of Oxford
- Source:
- Oxford University Press
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Overview: There are an increasing number of studies showing that patients often do not receive necessary care or receive care that is not needed, inefficient or even damaging. There is no lack of ideas and approaches on how to improve practice. In the last decades we have seen the rise of fascinating models for quality improvement, for instance Evidence Based Medicine, Total Quality Management and Patient Partnership. These models are interesting and potentially very valuable in improving patient care. However, the evidence for their (cost-) effectiveness is very limited.
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Format: PDF | Size: 111KB | Date: Aug 2000 | Pages: 8
