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PREVENTING POOR‐QUALITY MEDICAL CARE: KNOWLEDGE/ACTION DISCONSONANCE
Author(s) -
Roberts Rosemary F.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1979.tb104314.x
Subject(s) - action (physics) , quality (philosophy) , audit , medicine , business , medical care , nursing , medical emergency , psychology , intensive care medicine , risk analysis (engineering) , accounting , philosophy , physics , epistemology , quantum mechanics
Studies to evaluate quality of hospital care by means of the method of criteria auditing have yielded dubious results. More evidence of its efficiency and effectiveness should be sought before action to adapt or adopt such methods in Australia could be taken.