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Mental health quality improvement: What about ethics?
Author(s) -
Horsfall Jan,
Cleary Michelle
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
international journal of mental health nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.911
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1447-0349
pISSN - 1445-8330
DOI - 10.1046/j.1440-0979.2002.00224.x
Subject(s) - confidentiality , mental health , quality assurance , quality management , quality (philosophy) , psychology , nursing , business , engineering ethics , medicine , process management , service (business) , political science , psychiatry , engineering , law , philosophy , epistemology , marketing
: Nurses are increasingly developing and coordinating quality improvement projects under the auspices of state, area health service and organization policies, however, ethical frameworks are commonly absent. This study aims to define key terms, provide an overview of current policy in relation to ethics and outline some procedures and processes for mental health nurses involved in such projects. The use of appropriate ethical frameworks has the potential to foster participation and safeguard participants by providing a greater assurance of integrity and confidentiality regarding quality improvement data collection, utilization and dissemination.