Ziegenfuss J T
Physician Fellowships Program, Quality Assurance/Utilization Review, Penn State University, Harrisburg.
J Insur Med. 1992 Fall;24(3):171-6.
This paper discusses the needs for future education in quality assurance, assessment and improvement, particularly in relation to managed care. The pressures for increased education about quality are derived from different components of the health care system; e.g., regulatory and governmental agencies, purchasers of care, and competitors of health institutions. The content of future education in health care quality is defined in six areas: (1) organization and management; (2) health systems; (3) quality theory and methods; (4) management information systems and research; (5) governmental policy; and (6) economics and finance. Education in health care quality in these content areas is delivered at both the primary and continuing education levels by universities, professional associations and private training and development corporations. Future oriented, strategic thinking education in health care quality is needed. The pressures for education about quality, including traditional concepts of quality assurance, methodologies for quality assessment and the newer approaches to continuing quality improvement, are clearly growing stronger. This article discusses the need for education in health care quality, the content areas and levels of education and the delivery system.
本文讨论了未来在质量保证、评估和改进方面的教育需求，特别是与管理式医疗相关的需求。对质量教育需求增加的压力来自医疗保健系统的不同组成部分，例如监管和政府机构、医疗服务购买者以及卫生机构的竞争对手。未来医疗保健质量教育的内容在六个领域进行了界定：（1）组织与管理；（2）卫生系统；（3）质量理论与方法；（4）管理信息系统与研究；（5）政府政策；（6）经济与金融。这些内容领域的医疗保健质量教育在大学、专业协会以及私人培训和发展公司的初级和继续教育层面开展。需要面向未来的医疗保健质量战略思维教育。对质量教育的压力，包括传统的质量保证概念、质量评估方法以及持续质量改进的新方法，显然正在日益增强。本文讨论了医疗保健质量教育的必要性、教育的内容领域和层次以及提供体系。
