title: Creating a total quality health care environment.
abstract: Until recently, health professionals lacked incentives to integrate internal management processes, depending instead on external quality assurance and regulatory standards. Competitive markets and increased regulatory pressures now encourage managers to reorient systems from a cost-driven reimbursement approach to the implementation of Total Quality Care as a management strategy.
authors.affiliation: School of Business Administration, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL.
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Milakovich
mesh_terms: D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D006272:Health Facility Environment / Q000592:standards*; D006739:Hospital Administration / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D008330:Management Audit / Q000458:organization & administration; D008332:Management Quality Circles; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D015279:Organizational Culture; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000191:economics; D014481:United States