title: Quality assurance: a shift in focus.
abstract: Computers in Healthcare Associate Editor William A. Schmitt writes that quality assurance (QA) systems and philosophy has shifted from a punitive approach to focus instead on its more positive aspects. Schmitt also discovers that through the pressures of outside forces, QA may be one of the most important issues of the decade because the survival of many healthcare institutions may depend on it.
authors: W A
authors: WA
authors: Schmitt
mesh_terms: D006751:Hospital Information Systems / Q000592:standards*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000639:trends*; D014481:United States