title: Reflections on quality health care.
abstract: The author, a JCAHO Codman Award recipient, reflects on her professional career in the area of health care quality and describes how nurses have been leaders in the study and improvement of health care quality. Nursing's contributions to the development of quality of care measures, guidelines, and standardized languages are described and current and future opportunities for nursing are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Office of International Programs, WHO Collaborating Center for Nursing and Midwifery Leadership, School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, 420 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6096, USA. nlang@nursing.upenn.edu
authors.forename: Norma M
authors.initials: NM
authors.lastname: Lang
mesh_terms: D001363:Awards and Prizes; D005181:Faculty, Nursing / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007591:Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations / Q000266:history; D016294:Models, Nursing; D024802:Nurse's Role; D015399:Nursing Research / Q000266:history*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000266:history*; D017432:Unified Medical Language System / Q000266:history; D014481:United States