Quality assurance. Evaluate thyself.
Quality assurance (qa) programs must be documented carefully, systematically, and completely to be of continued value. A literature review revealed that no tools had been developed to evaluate the effectiveness of qa programs. A tool was designed and tested to assess the reports of qa studies, as an initial step in establishing the benefits of qa. The tool was found to yield reproducible results and its use is recommended to others.
D006746:Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over; D009731:Nursing Audit / Q000379:methods; D009736:Nursing Process / Q000592:standards*; D009738:Nursing Service, Hospital / Q000592:standards*; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care / Q000379:methods; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D012189:Retrospective Studies