Clinical Pathway and Total Quality Management

Accession number;03A0424090
Title;Clinical Pathway and Total Quality Management
Author; SOEJIMA HIDEHISA (Saiseikai Kumamoto Hospital, JPN)
Journal Title;Prog Med
Journal Code:F0664B
ISSN:0287-3648
VOL.23;NO.5;PAGE.1435-1439(2003)
Figure&Table&Reference;FIG.3, TBL.1, REF.3
Pub. Country;Japan
Language;Japanese
Abstract;The final goal of clinical pathway is the improvement of health care quality. Particularly, an outcome-oriented clinical pathway and a daily outcome oriented medical record system are the very effective and sophisticated tool which makes an efficient variance analysis related with a lot of clinical information. Moreover, the pursuit of the quality of health care will he finally involved with the finance and structure of hospital. We have developed 109 clinical pathways since 1996 and the total quality management (TQM) will be the next step of our activity of clinical pathways. (author abst.)