Optimizing the cost-effectiveness of quality assurance in transfusion medicine

From: Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine | Date: July 1, 1999| Author: AuBuchon, James P | Copyright information

* 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 c...

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