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Using Visual and Narrative Methods to Achieve Fair Process in Clinical Care
Published on: February 16, 2011
Emerging model of quality
1University of Tennessee-Memphis, College of Nursing, USA. jlarrabee@utmem1.utmem.edu
Abstract:
A theoretical model of quality, based on an organismic worldview, provides a framework for understanding health care quality. This retroductively developed model incorporates ethical and economic concepts: value, beneficence, prudence, and justice. The model supports viewing patients and families as equal partners with providers in defining, evaluating, and achieving health care quality. Further model development can generate mid-range theories useful for improving quality in an ethical and economic manner.
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