title: The Quality in Australian Health Care Study (QAHCS)--a review.
abstract: The author reviews the politics, publicity, methods and findings of the Quality in Australian Health Care Study, which was released to a blaze of media attention in 1995. The study is a significant contribution to the growing literature on the identification and categorisation of preventable adverse events, using expert retrospective review of medical records, and a mix of explicit and implicit criteria. However, its potential impact has been lessened by the way its findings were released.
authors.affiliation: Disease Control Centre, Territory Health Services, Casuarino, NT. tarun.weeramanthri@nt.gov.au
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authors.lastname: Weeramanthri
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D006302:Health Services Research; D006761:Hospitals / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D019300:Medical Errors; D010343:Patient Admission; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D011897:Random Allocation; D012494:Sampling Studies