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Quality Care in a Free Clinic
Author(s) -
Horowitz Lawrence
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.618
H-Index - 122
eISSN - 1540-4560
pISSN - 0022-4537
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4560.1974.tb00695.x
Subject(s) - quality (philosophy) , work (physics) , free clinic , patient care , medicine , nursing , medical emergency , psychology , health care , engineering , political science , law , mechanical engineering , philosophy , epistemology
The need for quality patient care in a free clinic is presented with emphasis on the importance of continued self‐scrutinizing on the part of the staff. The author brings up the possibility of peer review, better record keeping, tighter laboratory procedures, and more effective consumer‐patient participation in a clinic. A continued emphasis on quantity of patients seen, rather than on the quality of work done, can only serve to hurt the free clinics over an extended period of time.