title: Emerging model of quality.
abstract: A theoretical model of quality, based on an organismic worldview, provides a framework for understanding health care quality. This retroductively developed model incorporates ethical and economic concepts: value, beneficence, prudence, and justice. The model supports viewing patients and families as equal partners with providers in defining, evaluating, and achieving health care quality. Further model development can generate mid-range theories useful for improving quality in an ethical and economic manner.
authors.affiliation: University of Tennessee-Memphis, College of Nursing, USA. jlarrabee@utmem1.utmem.edu
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Larrabee
mesh_terms: D004470:Economics, Medical; D006801:Humans; D008037:Linguistics; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D010684:Philosophy; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D012945:Social Values