| Автор | Bachner, Paul |
| Автор | Howanitz, Peter J. |
| Дата выпуска | 1991 |
| dc.description | This paper will review the reasons for the increasing emphasis on quality assurance in American healthcare and laboratory medicine. This emphasis is driven in part by economic, social and regulatory concerns as well as the traditional commitment to the search for excellence in services provided to patients. The Q-Probes Program of the College of American Pathologists (CAP) represents a response to these pressures and will be described in some detail. The program is based upon the historical success of interlaboratory comparison programs developed and sponsored by the CAP in achieving demonstrable improvement in laboratory performance. These programs are dependent on the gathering of data from large numbers of laboratories in order to establish provisional “benchmarks” of quality practice which serve as a baseline for systematic quality improvement efforts. The Q-Probes Program gathers peer-group specific institutional data concerning defined aspects of quality practice in pathology and laboratory medicine. These highly structured programs provide laboratories and pathology services with a format to collect data for submission to the CAP for analysis and to compare their performance against that of appropriately stratified peer groups. Several representative examples chosen from clinical laboratory medicine and pathology will be presented. We will attempt to demonstrate how individual laboratory and pathology services utilize aggregate data to effect specific changes in practice that lead to improvement in processes of patient care and better patient outcomes. |
| Формат | application.pdf |
| Издатель | Oxford University Press |
| Копирайт | © 1991 Pergamon Press plc |
| Тема | Clinical pathology |
| Тема | turnaround times |
| Тема | quality probes |
| Тема | phlebotomy |
| Тема | Articles |
| Название | USING Q-PROBES TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LABORATORY MEDICINE: A QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM OF THE COLLEGE OF AMERICAN PATHOLOGISTS |
| Тип | research-article |
| DOI | 10.1093/intqhc/3.3.167 |
| Electronic ISSN | 1464-3677 |
| Print ISSN | 1353-4505 |
| Журнал | International Journal for Quality in Health Care |
| Том | 3 |
| Первая страница | 167 |
| Последняя страница | 177 |
| Аффилиация | Bachner Paul; Chairman, QAS-Quality Assurance Committee College of American Pathologists and Chairman, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine United Hospital Medical Center Port Chester New York |
| Аффилиация | Howanitz Peter J.; Vice–Chairman, QAS-Quality Assurance Contmiltee College of American Pathologists Director of Clinical Laboratories and Professor of Pathology UCLA Los Angeles California |
| Выпуск | 3 |
