TY - BOOK AU - Donabedian,Avedis AU - Bashshur,Rashid ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - An introduction to quality assurance in health care SN - 9780195158090 (hbk.) : AV - RA399.A1 U1 - 362.10685 DON PY - 2003/// CY - New York, Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Hospital care KW - Quality control KW - Medical care KW - Quality assurance KW - Health and Wellbeing KW - ukslc KW - Medical administration & management KW - thema KW - Quality Assurance (QA) & Total Quality Management (TQM) KW - Public health & preventive medicine KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif; ebrary; 2010; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries N2 - Avedis Donabedian unraveled the mystery behind the concept of quality in health care by defining it in clear operational terms and provided detailed blueprints for both its measurement (known as quality assessment) and its improvement. In this text, he describes both in simple, clear terms ER -