title: Quality hospital care--global trends and future challenges.
abstract: This paper provides an international overview of trends and elements of quality services provision in hospitals. The factors reviewed are hospital accreditation, government quality intervention, resource review, clinical procedure standardisation, patient education, high technology, financial mechanisms, risk management and evidence based medicine as relates to quality.
authors.affiliation: International Hospital Federation.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Pickering
mesh_terms: D000068:Accreditation; D019091:Critical Pathways; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006761:Hospitals / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000639:trends*; D012052:Reimbursement, Incentive; D012308:Risk Management; D013673:Technology Assessment, Biomedical; D006113:United Kingdom; D014481:United States; D014600:Utilization Review