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Article: Optimizing the cost-effectiveness of quality assurance in transfusion medicine
- Article from:
- Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
- Article date:
- July 1, 1999
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright College of American Pathologists Jul 1999. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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* Although quality assurance efforts have been integrated into many aspects of American health care, their value has been questioned. They can consume large amounts of resources (monetary and/or temporal), calling into question their cost-effectiveness. To improve the yield of quality assurance efforts and limit their consumption of administrative resources, they need to be focused on those aspects of the operation where improvement is needed or where errors are particularly problematic and costly. Just as a quality assurance program needs to define the outcome required of the process being monitored, the outcome of the quality assurance process needs to be defined at the outset; the ...
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