Avedis Donabedian's name is synonymous with quality of medical care. He unraveled the mystery behind the concept by defining it in clear operational terms and provided detailed blueprints for both its measurement(known as quality assessment) and its improvement(known as quality assurance). Many before him claimed that quality couldn't be defined in concrete objective terms. He demonstrated that quality is an attribte of a system which he called structure, a set of organized activities whihc he called process, and an outcome which results from both. In this book Donabedian tells the full story of quality assessment and assurance in simple, clear terms. He defines the meaning of quality, explicates its components, and provides clear and systematic guides to its assessment and enhancement. His style is lucid, succinct, systematic and yet personal, almost conversational.

An Introduction to Quality Assurance in Health Care

History

Donabedian, Avedis

Americas

Oxford University Press

A systematic presentation of social, economic, and medical information designed to help administrators assess resources and define objectives.

Aspects of Medical Care Administration: Specifying Requirements for Health Care

Medical Books

Administration & Medicine Economics

Harvard University Press

"Every social mechanism appears to have a dual potential for good and evil. Prepayment for medical care is no exception. On the one hand, it provides assurance of necessary care as a safeguard to health, economic well-being, and peace of mind. On the other hand, it opens the way to wasteful and harmful care, to price inflation, and to concealed redistributions in socially undesirable directions. The problem is to devise a plan that allows us to reap the most advantages while we incur the fewest drawbacks." Benefits in Medical Care Programs is a comprehensive treatment of this problem. Dr. Donabedian begins with a clear and straight forward analysis of his own assumptions about the social mandate for medical care benefits, the objectives of medical care programs, and the magnitude and distribution of the unmet need that these programs are designed to alleviate. The problem of defining and measuring the need for care is considered within the con text of the data yielded by alternative definitions. The analysis then shifts to the impact of benefits on certain key features of the medical care system. Program benefits are weighed against program objectives, and policy implications are drawn from this comparison. We are shown what can and cannot be accomplished through medical care benefits and what goals are served by specific aspects of existing or proposed plans. Although Dr. Donabedian counsels a fairly thorough reform of existing systems, he remains skeptical about the possibility of designing a perfect system, and he does not hesitate to point out that increased access to care "increases exposure to both what is good and what is bad in our system of medical care. . . The machinery of medical care has a sinister potential for those who fall into it in the wrong place at the wrong time. Dr. Donabedian's previous book Aspects of Medical Care Administration has been called the "bible" of its field. Benefits in Medical Care Programs should prove equally invaluable.

Benefits in Medical Care Programs

Business & Money

Insurance

Palmer, R. Heather, Donabedian, Avedis, Povar, Gail J.

Striving for Quality in Health Care: An Inquiry into Policy and Practice

Politics & Social Sciences

Palmer, R. Heather

Povar, Gail J.

Social Sciences

Health Administration Pr

Medical Care Chartbook/Order No 0912

Axelrod, Solomon J.

Wyszewianski, Leon

Health, Fitness & Dieting

This timeless book provides a sound basis for understanding the concept of healthcare quality. It covers the definition of quality and the basic approaches to how it is assessed.

Explorations in Quality Assessment and Monitoring: The Definition of Quality and Approaches to Its Assessment (Explorations in Quality Assessment and Monitoring , Vol 1)

Management & Leadership

Health Administration Press

The Criteria & Standards of Quality Covers techniques for eliciting expert opinions, including the Delphi technique, the nominal group technique, & combined methods.

The Criteria and Standards of Quality (Explorations in Quality Assessment and Monitoring, Volume II)

Foundation of the Amer College

The Criteria and Standards of Quality (Explorations in Quality Assessment and Monitoring Series Vol. 2)

Reference

Methods and Findings of Quality Assessment and Monitoring: An Illustrated Analysis (Explorations in Quality Assessment and Monitoring, Vol 3)

Explorations in quality assessment and monitoring volume III. The Methods and findings of quality assessment and monitoring: An Illustrated Analysis.

International

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