title: A quality assurance model for multidivision clinical departments.
abstract: Structuring a workable quality assurance (QA) program for multidivision and multispecialty clinical departments presents a considerable challenge. The Medical Center of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) found that QA activities in such departments were best handled by a committee of department physicians assisted by a QA staff person. This article provides examples of how two departments at the UCSF medical center structured QA committees to fit their departments' individual needs and explains how these committees fit in the medical center's overall QA program.
authors.affiliation: Medical Center at the University of California, San Francisco 94143-0208.
authors.forename: E M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Innes
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Jennings
mesh_terms: D006746:Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over; D006748:Hospital Departments / Q000592:standards*; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching / Q000592:standards*; D006785:Hospitals, University / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D015274:Interdepartmental Relations; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011367:Professional Staff Committees; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012495:San Francisco; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative / Q000401:mortality