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Moving from "small qa" to "large qa". An outcomes framework for improving quality management
J W Williamson1, D E Moore, P J Sanazaro
1VA Regional Medical Education Center, Salt Lake City, UT.
Abstract:
In this article we describe an "outcomes framework" for planning and analyzing quality management systems in relation to their ultimate purpose, enhancing the wide range of health care benefits. "Small qa" includes those methods that focus on structure or process and induce improvement of outcomes. These methods are essential but, predictably, often involve minimal improvement of health care. "LARGE QA" is defined as those methods that focus on unacceptable outcomes and deduce processes and structures to be changed to enhance outcomes. These methods focus on either "problems" or "opportunities" that predict substantial improvement in health care benefits. We briefly describe and analyze this outcomes framework for quality management in terms of its conceptual factors and its current and future emphasis. We then describe several major national program developments and resources that will facilitate moving the balance of quality management effort from small qa to LARGE QA.
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