DEFINING QUALITY

Defining Quality



Defining Quality

What is quality? How do you define quality in healthcare? What is the quality of health care in the U.S. today? All these questions although do not have a defined and concrete explanation since parameters depend and vary according to situation as they may see fit. Quality is defined as 'non-inferiority or superiority of a particular commodity or unit of something. Called "Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century," it criticized a healthcare delivery system "plagued by a serious quality gap." As medical science and technology have advanced at a rapid ...