The quality and outcomes management connection
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Continuous quality improvement of patient care requires an effective method of measuring and managing outcomes. The Continuous Outcomes Measurement and Improvement (COMIT) model presents a process that interdisciplinary teams can utilize to enhance outcomes. The eight-step model links an outcome or variance measure to its care processes. The standards of the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations are compatible with outcomes management.
Publication Name: Critical Care Nursing Quarterly
Subject: Health care industry
ISSN: 0887-9303
Year: 1997
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Point-of-care testing in the United Kingdom
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Point-of-care testing has not spread as aggressively through the British hospital system as it has in the United States. The United Kingdom's National Health Service is slow to make changes and laboratories are resistant to decentralization. Where point-of-care testing is used is poorly regulated and there is no quality control in place.
Publication Name: Critical Care Nursing Quarterly
Subject: Health care industry
ISSN: 0887-9303
Year: 2001
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POCT regulatory compliance: what is it and how does it impact you?
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Nurses who perform point-of -care testing should know and understand the various regulations governing laboratory testing. Various bodies issue regulations on medical testing, including the federal government, state governments, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and the College of American Pathologists.
Publication Name: Critical Care Nursing Quarterly
Subject: Health care industry
ISSN: 0887-9303
Year: 2001
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