Key principles of quality management for health information departments and their managers.
This article briefly summarises the key factors essential for successful quality management in a medical record department. The article suggests that health information managers should play a larger role in overall hospital quality management and their credibility in this activity would be enhanced if they were to first look to their own departments.
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Qual-med Pty Ltd, NSW. lwilson10@Compuserve.com
D001315:Australia; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D019451:Information Management / Q000592:standards*; D008330:Management Audit / Q000592:standards; D008497:Medical Record Administrators; D008500:Medical Records Department, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D017749:Total Quality Management / Q000592:standards*