title: Quality improvement.
abstract: Quality improvement in health care is a structured analysis of a health-care system with a view to improving its performance. This review describes the history of quality improvement and its growing application in health care. It gives further information for doctors wanting to participate.
authors.affiliation: Departmnet of Internal Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA. reuben.aras@doctors.org.uk
authors.forename: Reuben
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Arasaratnam
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D058996:Quality Improvement / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration; D006113:United Kingdom