title: The manager's role in developing standards.
abstract: Pick up any health care journal nowadays and you are bound to find at least one article on quality standards and audit. More and more professional staff of all disciplines are examining their practice and documenting standards of care which aim to promote a desired and achievable level of performance against which actual performance can be compared.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Doherty
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009042:Motivation; D009745:Nursing, Supervisory / Q000592:standards*; D015279:Organizational Culture; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012380:Role