Quality assessment and assurance: unity of purpose, diversity of means.
PubMedPublished 1 January 1988
Avedis Donabedian
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This paper attempts to advance the understanding and appreciation of the several contributions to this anthology by placing their more important features in a unifying framework and celebrates the rededication to quality in health care.
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In this paper I attempt to advance our understanding and appreciation of the several contributions to this anthology by placing their more important features in a unifying framework. In this way I hope to show their historical antecedents, their interrelationships, and their linkages to the central problems and purposes of quality assessment and assurance. But above all, I celebrate our rededication to quality in health care.
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Health ProfessionsEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
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