title: Introducing quality assurance to a state hospital medical staff.
abstract: Establishing a quality assurance program in a developing state hospital requires considering the unique problems of being a physician in such a setting. The hospital and medical staff must be developed to the point where consideration of quality of care is a feasible goal. Managers can take advantage of the interests of individual medical staff as well as serendipitous factors promoting a program.
authors.affiliation: Westborough State Hospital, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: W S
authors.initials: WS
authors.lastname: James
mesh_terms: D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric / Q000592:standards*; D006779:Hospitals, Public / Q000592:standards*; D006783:Hospitals, State / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D008404:Massachusetts; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital / Q000592:standards*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care