Optometric quality assurance.
Quality Assurance, (QA), is an expanding hospital-based system of optimizing cost-effective eye care. It seeks to minimize patient care problems. Drawing from military experience with QA under the JCAH, a QA checklist and a patient satisfaction survey are presented as tools to improve QA programs for other optometrists.
D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D009907:Optometry / Q000592:standards*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000639:trends*; D012308:Risk Management / Q000639:trends; D014481:United States