The document discusses quality in health and healthcare institutions. It defines quality as the degree to which delivered health services meet established standards and minimize risk and untoward outcomes. Quality has three dimensions: the quality of input resources, the quality process of service delivery, and the quality of outcomes from service use. Implementing quality requires approaches like total quality management, continuous quality improvement, Six Sigma, and benchmarking to measure quality through methods like control charts, cause-effect diagrams, and collecting data from focus groups and surveys. The outcomes of quality include improved patient safety, staff and patient satisfaction, and cost containment.
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