Setting up a quality-assurance program: issues with impact on patient care.
We developed a simplified approach to the setting up of a radiology quality-assurance program based on the standards of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals. This approach gives priority to the little-discussed issues that have maximum impact on patient care: the monitoring of the radiologic service as a whole and personnel performance. Quality control of equipment and radiation protection have been extensively dealt with in the literature and are omitted.
D005431:Florida; D006746:Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over; D006748:Hospital Departments / Q000592:standards*; D006787:Hospitals, Veterans / Q000592:standards*; D007591:Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D011872:Radiology Department, Hospital / Q000592:standards*