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E Hammershøy

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PubMed1994

Quality of care activities in Danish hospitals.

This article describes how hospitals in Denmark have tried to meet the quality challenge. How to improve health care has been a topic of debate in Denmark in the last decade, and various authorities and professional organizations have implemented quality improvement initiatives. A 1991 survey of Danish hospitals showed that methods of quality improvement and the responsibility for quality management were still issues in need of further clarification. This article illustrates the process of quality improvement using hospitals in the city of Copenhagen as examples.

Denmark↗
PubMed1991

[Drug committee--an example of a quality circle].

A theoretical comparison was undertaken between the work of the drug committee and that of the quality circle in order to investigate whether quality circles are suited as methods for organisation of ensuring the standard of quality in Danish hospitals. On the basis of an investigation of the pharmaceutical service in hospitals, the work of the drug committees was analysed and assessed. The authors found that drug committees which worked according to quality circle principles achieved their goal: To rationalise the employment of drugs in routine treatment. The authors consider that formation of quality circles is a suitable method of ensuring quality in Danish hospitals but it would probably be of decisive significance for the result that the hospital direction assumed its responsibility for the results and for coordination of the circles.

Denmark↗