通过减少不必要的差异来提高质量和患者安全。

Improving quality and patient safety by minimizing unnecessary variation.

作者信息

Jacobs Benjamin, Duncan James R

机构信息

Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, 510 South Kingshighway Boulevard, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.

出版信息

J Vasc Interv Radiol. 2009 Feb;20(2):157-63. doi: 10.1016/j.jvir.2008.10.031. Epub 2008 Dec 20.

DOI:10.1016/j.jvir.2008.10.031

PMID:19097809

Abstract

Quality and safety in health care have proven difficult to precisely define and measure. In other fields, quality is defined as the absence of unnecessary variation and process improvement efforts are gauged by their ability to reduce variation. This article explores how this definition can be applied to various attributes of image-guided procedures.

摘要

医疗保健中的质量和安全已被证明难以精确界定和衡量。在其他领域，质量被定义为不存在不必要的差异，而流程改进工作则根据其减少差异的能力来衡量。本文探讨了这一定义如何应用于影像引导手术的各种属性。