Using quality assurance to meet the challenge of economic change.
The processes of quality assurance address a range of issues relating to the economics of hospital management. Size of hospital, role delineation, types and quantities of services delivered can all be analysed from a quality assurance perspective. Quality assurance processes can then be used first to identify and then to facilitate the introduction and implementation of economic changes in health services delivery.
Lapsley
H M
HM
School of Health Services Management, University of New South Wales, Australia.
D001315:Australia; D003363:Cost Control / Q000379:methods; D006739:Hospital Administration / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000191:economics*