Total quality management including a detailed documentation system increases organ donation rates by transparency of information and consecutive motivation.
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Total quality management: an epidemiologist's frank perspective.
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[Total quality management in healthcare. The European Foundation for Quality Management Model].
After presenting the quality model adapted by the health authorities, the authors refer to the development of quality methodology to the present day, and the importance of the self assessment of Quality focusing on the one according to the European Foundation For Quality Management (EFQM) adapted by healthcare organisations. Each criteria of the EFQM model is presented and its potential as a motivation for change by means of self assessment is discussed.
Delivery of Health Care↗
The development of a statewide continuous evaluation system for the Texas Children's Mental Health Plan: a total quality management approach.
The article presents a description of processes involved in developing and implementing a statewide continuous evaluation system for the Texas Children's Mental Health Plan (TCMHP) and quality management tools used to approach implementation challenges. Implementation issues are discussed relating to stakeholder involvement, evaluation design evolution, measurement method modification, evaluation integration, staff training, data quality control, communication of results, and use of results in decision making. A review of implementation processes suggests evaluation design and activities should be seen as constantly evolving in response to ongoing stakeholder input. Involving stakeholders in design and implementation can result in increased data quality, data-informed decision making to improve service delivery, and increased public accountability. The TCMHP evaluation system development demonstrates that quality management tools can provide a useful framework to work through design and implementation problems, and a continuous evaluation system can provide an infrastructure for meeting data needs in a managed care environment.
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Integrated communications perspectives and the practice of total quality management.
Communication is becoming increasingly identified as a significant factor influencing the ability of the NHS to achieve high-quality outcomes. Typically, organizations have tended to conceptualize communication as a process dealing with external relationships. Emphasizes the importance of both internal and external communications, and argues that the NHS now needs to integrate both these dimensions of the communication function. Proposes a strategic framework which suggests how this can be accomplished. Proposes and discusses a communications-centred model of the management process in the light of this approach. This model integrates perspectives which have hitherto dichotomized management as either a science or an art. It also locates communication at the heart of effective management. Finally, suggests the NHS is uniquely well placed to provide data on the impact and costs of total communication programmes.
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Reduction of accounts receivable through total quality management.
On October 1, 1990, The Miriam Hospital in Providence, R.I., converted to a new computer system for patient accounting applications and on-line registration functions. The new system automated the hospital's patient accounting, registration, and medical records functions and interfaced registration with patient accounts for billing purposes.
Accounts Payable and Receivable↗
Scaling the quality heights. Portraits in total quality management.
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Good Laboratory Practices, Total Quality Management, and International Organization for Standardization: a foundation for excellence.
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Facility Regulation and Control↗
[Quality assurance and total quality management in residential home care].
Quality, quality assurance, and quality management have been important topics in residential care homes for several years. However, only as a result of reform processes in the German legislation (long-term care insurance, care quality assurance) is a systematic discussion taking place. Furthermore, initiatives and holistic model projects, which deal with the assessment and improvement of service quality, were developed in the field of care for the elderly. The present article gives a critical overview of essential developments. Different comprehensive approaches such as the implementation of quality management systems, nationwide expert-based initiatives, and developments towards professionalizing care are discussed. Empirically based approaches, especially those emphasizing the assessment of outcome quality, are focused on in this work. Overall, the authors conclude that in the past few years comprehensive efforts have been made to improve the quality of care. However, the current situation still requires much work to establish a nationwide launch and implementation of evidence-based quality assurance and quality management.
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The application of quality assurance to total quality management. Development of 14C-based analytical methods for metabolism and environmental fate studies at RTP.
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Internet course on total quality management.
The Internet provides new opportunities to information-based industries such as universities. If a vast majority of potential customers of our programs have access to the Internet, then it is conceivable that many universities will begin teaching Internet courses and that such courses could, in many cases, replace or at least augment existing face-to-face classroom activities. This paper is an account of one such course at Cleveland State University and the type of policy issues raised by the course at this institution.
Adult↗
Applying total quality management (TQM) to health care administration.
Author Neil S. Fleming, Ph.D., ASQC, C.Q.E., approaches quality management from a more theoretical perspective, relating it to dimensions of predictability and responsiveness. He couples these with achieving the optimal balance between prevention, appraisal and failure with the goal of producing the lowest possible total quality costs.
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[Total quality management in times of crisis. The case of Argentina].
Healthcare organizations were faced with so great a challenge following the financial slump that they were forced to 'sharpen their wits' in order to survive. Integrated Quality Management (in Spanish GIC), proved the ideal instrument. GIC has four foundational elements, the application of which allow for successful management of crisis situations. They are as follows: TRAINING of human resources EVALUATION of healthcare institutions SELF-EVALUATION by institutions QUALITY ACCREDITATION of institutions All our organizations have the appropriate tools to carry out these activities which form the basis of our project: CAES (Argentinean Chamber of Healthcare Institutions) -training-, CIDCAM (Inter-institutional Committee for Quality Development in Medical Care) -evaluation and self-evaluation-, CENAS (Specialist Centre for the Standardization and Accreditation in Health Care)-accreditation-. In times of crisis, we play an active part, that is, instead of withdrawing our efforts, we do our best to achieve the best and most adequate objective in order to meet the needs of the population through Integrated Quality Management. Eventually, when the results are examined, medical care that meets the best quality standards is found to be, after all, the most economical (that is best results, better satisfaction of healthcare users and providers as well as less mistakes).
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A small medical group's journey toward total quality management.
Steven M. Shufro, executive director of Concord Hillside Medical Associates, in Concord, Mass., documents the first year of the group's implementation of a quality program and what the results were. He includes a look at the organizational context of the group, the development of the program and how the Harvard Community Health Plan, the largest pre-paid HMO in New England, assisted them.
Attitude of Health Personnel↗
A survey of total quality management in Iran.
PURPOSE: The objective of this research is to investigate the success of TQM and barriers to its successful implementation in health care services organizations in Isfahan province, Iran, 2004. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH: This descriptive and cross-sectional research was done via two questionnaires (TQM success and its barriers). The statistical population of this research consists of all managers of health care services organizations who implemented TQM in their organizations (90 managers). FINDINGS: TQM success in Isfahan health care organizations was high. In correlation analyses between the success of TQM and its principles, success, process management and focus on employees had a positive and the greatest effect and focus on material resources and on suppliers had a lower effect. In correlation analysis between the barriers to TQM and the problem dimensions, human resource, strategic and structural problems were the most important obstacles and barriers to TQM successful implementation respectively. RESEARCH LIMITATIONS/IMPLICATIONS: Although conducted in Iran, it is anticipated that the findings may well have relevance on a broader scale. ORIGINALITY/VALUE: By replicating this study in different countries and contexts the results could be very fruitful for developing a model of TQM that can be implemented easily, effectively, efficiently and successfully in a cross-cultural context.
Cross-Sectional Studies↗
Education and training: mission through total quality management.
Planning for 1994 to 1996 is underway with a focus on innovative, system-wide approaches to clinical and nonclinical quality improvement needs for FHSC's customers. TQM is a pivotal point in the system's future as a health care provider. As part of the TQM process, gaining knowledge and imparting it to employees is, in itself, a continuing journey.
Catholicism↗
Total quality management for clinical laboratories: a need or a new fashion?
In most European countries, concepts of quality management in medical laboratories have been proposed. These concepts are based on general standards for test laboratories (EN 45001, ISO 25) or specific adapted standards. Improvement of quality lays on the foundation of the implementation of quality systems in medical laboratories. This new approach will have consequences on management style and on working conditions. Efficacy on the implementation can only be tested by external audits. During this audit, not only the quality system and analytical competence must be examined, but also if there is a real contact between pathologists and clinicians and if laboratory results are clinically validated (clinical audit). This new vision on quality in medical laboratories will ask a reconsideration of the tasks, duties and knowledge of clinical pathologists.
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Total quality management in the delivery of public health services: a focus on North Carolina WIC programs.
Principles of quality improvement have been successfully implemented in the for-profit sector of the United States economy. The purpose of this study is to test the use of quality improvement strategies including development of leadership skills, a focus on internal quality, ongoing training and staff development, and efficient use of resources in the delivery of services in the public sector. The emphasis of this study is strategies for improving the delivery of nutrition education and supplemental foods to high-risk women, infants, and children through a federally funded program called WIC.
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