Quality: the banner of the 1980s.
Quality management is the vehicle for integrating the critical aspects of patient care into nursing service delivery approaches. Predetermined standards for quality, productivity, risk, and cost are correlated in this quality management approach. Information systems facilitate this integration. Nurses must now structure their quality management data elements to accurately reflect nursing practice and relationships of nursing care to the whole.
D006302:Health Services Research; D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems; D009739:Nursing Services / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D010934:Planning Techniques; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D014481:United States