title: Quality assurance at the Methodist Hospital of Houston.
abstract: In 1983, The Methodist Hospital of Houston, Texas--the largest private nonprofit acute care hospital in the United States--revised its quality assurance (QA) program to integrate Joint Commission standards with the mission of the hospital. The revised QA program includes the medical staff, hospital departments, management, and a Caring Through Service Task Force, which evaluates services from the patient's perspective.
authors.affiliation: Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ward
mesh_terms: D006761:Hospitals; D006786:Hospitals, Urban / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D007591:Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D010380:Peer Review / Q000379:methods; D011367:Professional Staff Committees / Q000458:organization & administration; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D013781:Texas; D000078329:Workforce