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Emerging Model of Quality
Author(s) -
Larrabee June H.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
image: the journal of nursing scholarship
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009
H-Index - 80
eISSN - 1547-5069
pISSN - 0743-5150
DOI - 10.1111/j.1547-5069.1996.tb00387.x
Subject(s) - prudence , beneficence , quality (philosophy) , economic justice , value (mathematics) , management science , health care , psychology , sociology , process management , engineering ethics , risk analysis (engineering) , knowledge management , business , computer science , epistemology , political science , economics , autonomy , economic growth , engineering , law , philosophy , machine learning
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.