Inquest on QUEST

Raymond W.Dick1
1Royal Cornhill Hospital, Aberdeen, UK

Tóm tắt

Describes how a group of nurse managers developed a tool for measuring the quality of care in mental hospital wards and how this was adapted for use within general elderly services. Examines the impact of the tool on service provision within a group of small local community hospitals and evaluates it using a matrix composed of Donabedian’s structure/process/outcome model of quality and Maxwell’s six dimensions of quality.

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4Maternity Services Working Group, Maternity Services ‐ QUEST, Grampian Health Board, 1990.

5Goldstone, L.A., Ball, J.A. and Collier, M.M., MONITOR: An Index of the Quality of Nursing Care for Acute Medical and Surgical Wards, Polytechnic Products Ltd, Newcastle upon‐Tyne, 1983.

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8Donabedian, A., “Institutional and professional responsibilities in quality assurance”, Quality Assurance in Health Care, Vol. 1 No. 1, pp. 3‐11.