title: Quality specifications and standard-setting for stoma care patients.
abstract: Quality specifications can be used as an information resource by purchasers of health care. The nature of service provision and nursing care can be positively influenced by the formalisation of standards and quality specifications. Auditing is essential in the ongoing evaluation of a quality system.
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Primer
mesh_terms: D003284:Contract Services / Q000592:standards*; D004766:Enterostomy / Q000451:nursing*; D006801:Humans; D009731:Nursing Audit; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care