title: Outpatient quality assurance monitor: constipation/encopresis.
abstract: Quality Assurance (QA) programs assure that patients are getting the appropriate care, information, and support needed to produce better health outcomes. In this article, the authors describe monitoring nursing process by documentation of care in patients with constipation/encopresis. Longitudinal follow up to monitor patient outcomes completed the QA program. The process portion of the monitor was very successful, but the results of the outcome monitor were disappointing.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Frost
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ellett
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Winchester
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003248:Constipation / Q000451:nursing*; D004688:Encopresis / Q000451:nursing*; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D009736:Nursing Process; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*