title: Current status of quality evaluation of nursing care through director review and reflection from the Nursing Quality Control Centers.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The quality evaluation of nursing care is a key link in medical quality management. It is important and worth studying for the nursing supervisors to know the disadvantages during the process of quality evaluation of nursing care and then to improve the whole nursing quality. This study was to provide director insight on the current status of quality evaluation of nursing care from Nursing Quality Control Centers (NQCCs).
  
  
  METHODS
  This qualitative study used a sample of 12 directors from NQCCs who were recruited from 12 provinces in China to evaluate the current status of quality evaluation of nursing care. Data were collected by in-depth interviews. Content analysis method was used to analyze the data.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Four themes emerged from the data: 1) lag of evaluation index; 2) limitations of evaluation content; 3) simplicity of evaluation method; 4) excessive emphasis on terminal quality.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  It is of great realistic significance to ameliorate nursing quality evaluation criteria, modify the evaluation content based on patient needs-oriented idea, adopt scientific evaluation method to evaluate nursing quality, and scientifically and reasonably draw horizontal comparisons of nursing quality between hospitals, as well as longitudinal comparisons of a hospital's nursing quality. These methods mentioned above can all enhance a hospital's core competitiveness and benefit more patients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing Administration, Affiliated Tenth Peoples Hospital of Tongji University Shanghai, China.
authors.forename: Xia
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Duan
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing Administration, Affiliated Tenth Peoples Hospital of Tongji University Shanghai, China.
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Shi
keywords: Nursing Quality Control Centers; directors; nursing care; qualitative research; quality evaluation