Download or read book Medicare written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1990-02-01 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health care for the elderly American is among our nation's more pressing social issues. Our society wishes to ensure quality health care for all older people, but there is growing concern about our ability to maintain and improve quality in the face of efforts to contain health care costs. Medicare: A Strategy for Quality Assurance answers the U.S. Congress' call for the Institute of Medicine to design a strategic plan for assessing and assuring the quality of medical care for the elderly. This book presents a proposed strategic plan for improving quality assurance in the Medicare program, along with steps and timetables for implementing the plan by the year 2000 and the 10 recommendations for action by Congress. The book explores quality of careâ€"how it is defined, measured, and improvedâ€"and reviews different types of quality problems. Major issues that affect approaches to assessing and assuring quality are examined. Medicare: A Strategy for Quality Assurance will be immediately useful to a wide audience, including policymakers, health administrators, individual providers, specialists in issues of the older American, researchers, educators, and students.
Download or read book A Report on the Development of a Model Quality Assurance Program for the Columbus Health Department s Neighborhood Health Center System written by Medical Advances Institute and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Computer based Ambulatory Quality Assurance Program written by Harvard Community Health Plan and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Quality Assurance written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guidelines for development of a quality assurance program written by Denny E. Wagoner and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reliability and Quality Assurance Program Status Report quarterly written by UNITED TECHNOLOGY CENTER SUNNYVALE CALIF. and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Registries for Evaluating Patient Outcomes written by Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality/AHRQ and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This User’s Guide is intended to support the design, implementation, analysis, interpretation, and quality evaluation of registries created to increase understanding of patient outcomes. For the purposes of this guide, a patient registry is an organized system that uses observational study methods to collect uniform data (clinical and other) to evaluate specified outcomes for a population defined by a particular disease, condition, or exposure, and that serves one or more predetermined scientific, clinical, or policy purposes. A registry database is a file (or files) derived from the registry. Although registries can serve many purposes, this guide focuses on registries created for one or more of the following purposes: to describe the natural history of disease, to determine clinical effectiveness or cost-effectiveness of health care products and services, to measure or monitor safety and harm, and/or to measure quality of care. Registries are classified according to how their populations are defined. For example, product registries include patients who have been exposed to biopharmaceutical products or medical devices. Health services registries consist of patients who have had a common procedure, clinical encounter, or hospitalization. Disease or condition registries are defined by patients having the same diagnosis, such as cystic fibrosis or heart failure. The User’s Guide was created by researchers affiliated with AHRQ’s Effective Health Care Program, particularly those who participated in AHRQ’s DEcIDE (Developing Evidence to Inform Decisions About Effectiveness) program. Chapters were subject to multiple internal and external independent reviews.
Download or read book Quality Assurance in Materials and Construction written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This review is a product of the FHWA 2006, National Review Program (NRP). Quality Assurance (QA) was selected for review in 2006 because the program was ranked as one of the top five areas of interest for review by FHWA. Over the last 10 years an average of 75 percent of the Federal-aid program was affected by the QA program. The goals of this review are: to reduce risk in the quality assurance program; recommend improvements which allow Division Offices to evaluate, approve, and monitor State quality assurance programs with a high degree of confidence; and identify successful practices that will add value to this program at a national level."--Page ii.
Download or read book Quality Assurance in Research and Development written by Roberts and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1983-10-27 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapter 7: PROJECT CONSTRUCTION -- I. MATERIAL IDENTIFICATION AND CONTROL -- II. CONTROL OF SPECIAL PROCESSES -- III. INSPECTION -- IV. HANDLING, STORAGE, AND SHIPPING -- V. NONCONFORMING MATERIALS, PARTS, OR COMPONENTS -- APPENDIX: AN ANALYSIS OF CORRECTIVE ACTION REPORTS GENERATED DURING A 3-YEAR PERIOD -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 8: CONTROL OFMEASURING AND TEST EQUIPMENT -- I. THE NEED FOR FORMAL CONTROL -- II. TRACEABILITY -- A. Definition of Traceability -- B. Purposes and Uses of Traceability -- C. Measurement Traceability and Standards Traceability -- D. The Question Posed to NBS -- E. NBS Advice on Traceability -- III. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION -- IV. SCOPE -- V. QUALITY LEVELS -- VI. CENTRALIZED CONTROL -- VII. CALIBRATION PROCEDURES -- IX. EVALUATION OF CALIBRATION SUPPLIERS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 9: TEST CONTROL -- I. TEST PLAN -- II. TEST PROCEDURES -- III . DOCUMENTATION AND REVIEW OF RESULTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 10: SOFTWARE -- I. BACKGROUND -- II. THE SOFTWARE QUALITY ASSURANCE PROGRAM -- A. Planning -- B. Software Quality Levels and QA Plans -- C. Software Development Process -- D. Evaluation -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 11: RECORDS AND REPORTING -- I. PROJECT RECORDS -- II. REPORTS -- III. TRACEABILITY -- IV. RETENTION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 12: AUDITING THE PROGRAM -- I. GENERAL AUDITING CONSIDERATIONS -- II. PROJECTS -- A. Specified QA -- B. Standard Laboratory Practice -- III. SYSTEM AUDITS -- IV. SUPPLIER AUDITS -- REFERENCES -- INDEX
Download or read book DOD Quality Assurance Program Review Phase I Report written by ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE (INSTALLATIONS AND LOGISTICS) WASHINGTON D C. and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June 1973, the DoD Quality Assurance Council directed that a DoD Quality Assurance Program Review be conducted to assess the status of Quality Assurance (QA) throughout the entire DoD. The study was to comprise three elements: Background Review, Main Study, and Actions on Future QA. A Study Plan and Ad Hoc DoD Work Panel was approved by the Council. The Study Plan included five phases as follows: Background review, acquisition, functional issues, personnel issues, and organizational issues. The original approved plan for the subject study is included in Appendix A. This report represents the results of the Work Panel's effort on Phase I.
Download or read book Quality Assurance Program Manual written by United States. Defense Logistics Agency and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guidelines for Optimizing the Risk and Cost of Materials QA Programs written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2017-05-25 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Research Report 838: Guidelines for Optimizing the Risk and Cost of Materials QA Programs proposes guidelines for optimizing the risk and cost of materials quality assurance (QA) programs. It develops a methodology for establishing a materials QA program that optimizes risk and cost by providing appropriate types, levels, and frequencies of agency testing and inspection for transportation projects across their full range of type, size, complexity, and project-delivery method.
Download or read book NOAA Quality Assurance Program for Marine Environmental Measurements written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Report on the Quality Assurance Program written by North Carolina. State Board of Education. Liaison Committee and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guidelines for development of a quality assurance program written by Denny E. Wagoner and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Quality Assurance Programme for Digital Mammography written by International Atomic Energy Agency and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This manual provides a harmonized approach to quality assurance (QA) in the emerging area of digital mammography. It outlines the principles of, and specific instructions that can be used for, a QA programme for the optimal detection of early stage breast cancer within a digital environment. Intended for use by Member States that are now using digital mammography or that are assessing the implications of using digital mammography, it addresses major areas such as considerations concerning the transition from screen film to digital mammography, basic principles of QA, clinical image quality, quality control tests for radiographers, and quality control tests for medical physicists, including dosimetry assessment. Instructional materials to supplement the knowledge of professionals already working in the field of diagnostic radiology, as well as quality control worksheets, are also provided.
Download or read book TRI Data Quality Assurance Program written by Jeany Anderson-LaBar and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
