Quality improvement: a collaborative discipline approach

In order for a quality assurance program to achieve its goal of true quality improvement, it must function in full partnership with the entire treatment team as a collaborative discipline. It must actively contribute to the care by not only developing effective studies and reports on treatment but also must share these results in an educational, timely, relevant, and individualized manner. This article offers a number of specific methods to enhance staff involvement and participation in quality assurance and describes a series of collaborative approaches and techniques to promote their collaboration.