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Donabedian model. The Donabedian model is a conceptual model that provides a framework for examining health services and evaluating quality of health care. [1] According to the model, information about quality of care can be drawn from three categories: “structure,” “process,” and “outcomes." [2] Structure describes the context in ...
Definition. Health care quality is the degree to which health care services for individuals and populations increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes. [2] Quality of care plays an important role in describing the iron triangle of health care relationships between quality, cost, and accessibility of health care within a community. [3]
The National Committee for Quality Assurance ( NCQA) is an independent 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization in the United States that works to improve health care quality through the administration of evidence-based standards, measures, programs, and accreditation. The National Committee for Quality Assurance operates on a formula of measure ...
Quality assurance. Quality assurance ( QA) is the term used in both manufacturing and service industries to describe the systematic efforts taken to assure that the product (s) delivered to customer (s) meet with the contractual and other agreed upon performance, design, reliability, and maintainability expectations of that customer.
The Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set ( HEDIS) is a widely used set of performance measures in the managed care industry, developed and maintained by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). HEDIS was designed to allow consumers to compare health plan performance to other plans and to national or regional benchmarks.
The sale of Mission Health to HCA Healthcare in 2019 brought many changes to health care in Western North Carolina. Some of these are good — a new hospital in Franklin, a new and expanded mental ...
The U.S. healthcare system has been the subject of significant political debate and reform efforts, particularly in the areas of healthcare costs, insurance coverage, and the quality of care. Legislation such as the Affordable Care Act of 2010 has sought to address some of these issues, though challenges remain.
Hospital accreditation has been defined as “A self-assessment and external peer assessment process used by health care organizations to accurately assess their level of performance in relation to established standards and to implement ways to continuously improve”. [1] Critically, accreditation is not just about standard-setting: there are ...