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Auditing the Quality of Care of a Crisis Center
Author(s) -
Stelmachers Zigfrids T.,
Baxter James W.,
Ellenson Gerald M.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
suicide and life‐threatening behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.544
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1943-278X
pISSN - 0363-0234
DOI - 10.1111/j.1943-278x.1978.tb01081.x
Subject(s) - audit , center (category theory) , quality (philosophy) , quality audit , action (physics) , crisis intervention , medicine , quality management , medical emergency , nursing , accounting , business , psychology , psychiatry , service (business) , marketing , philosophy , chemistry , epistemology , crystallography , physics , quantum mechanics
The purpose of this paper is twofold: First, it defines and describes different types of audits and areas of patient care which lend themselves to a quality of performance review. Second, it describes an audit application at a hos pital‐based crisis intervention center and the corrective action taken on the basis of the findings. The major emphasis of the audit was to determine the quality of medical‐psychiatric consultation and to develop criteria for its initiation.