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Continuous Quality Improvement in a Community Teaching Hospital

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

William E. Scheckler
William E. Scheckler*
Affiliation:
St. Marys Hospital Medical Center and theUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School, Department of Family Medicine and Practice, Department of Medicine, Madison, Wisconsin
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School, Department of Family Medicine and Practice, 777 S. Mills St., Madison, WI 53715
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The purpose of this report is to describe the workings of continuous quality improvement (CQI) in a nonprofit community teaching hospital. An earlier report reviewed the adoption by a hospital system of CQI and discussed the implications and opportunities for the discipline of hospital epidemiology. This article will further develop the theme of CQI, discussed in recent months in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology and other journals, by offering a case history of one hospital's journey down the CQI management pathway-the origins, the aids, and the barriers to adoption, the development of the first CQI teams, and future prospects.

Type
Beyond Infection Control: The New Hospital Epidemiology
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 13 , Issue 11 , November 1992 , pp. 678 - 682
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1992

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