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A Donabedian

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[International dimension of quality evaluation and assurance].

Healthcare can be considered in terms of three components: technical care, management of the interpersonal relationship, and the amenities of care. Evaluation of these parameters allows an assessment of the quality of care, but only if the specific characteristics of the country involved are taken into account. Standards, resource availability, customs, and beliefs change from one society to another. Care assessment criteria must change accordingly. Similarly, quality assurance depends on the design of a system appropriate to the particular conditions of each place, and on the efficient monitoring of the system's performance.

Delivery of Health Care↗
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Effectiveness of computer-aided learning in community health nursing.

The authors report an evaluation of one experience in computer-aided learning, with an attempt to ascertain its effectiveness in adding to knowledge or changing attitudes about selected aspects of the diagnosis and management of breast cancer in women. The authors also discuss how much a selected group of senior nursing students knew about the subject before embarking on the exercise in computer-aided learning.

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[Priorities of progress in evaluating and monitoring quality of care].

This paper discusses the following priorities: redefining and widening the scope of assessment, redefining assessment methods, redesigning and evaluating quality assurance systems, promoting consumer participation, professionalizing quality assurance, and creating a supportive culture. The article proposes empirical assessment of quality assurance methods as the highest priority. It concludes with the idea that seeking quality is the ethical dimension of professional life. Therefore, all reasonable efforts towards monitoring quality will be successful. Without this, the cleverest monitoring systems will fact.

Community Participation↗