Total Quality Management
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Latest indexed articles for 'Total Quality Management'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• The business case for TCAB. 30 Oct 2009
• Lessons from nursing leaders on implementing TCAB. 30 Oct 2009
• Participation of unit nurses: front-line implementation on TCAB pilot units. 30 Oct 2009
• Overall effect of TCAB on initial participating hospitals. 30 Oct 2009
• TCAB in the curriculum: creating a safer environment through nursing education. 30 Oct 2009
• Trustees view TCAB from a business perspective. Interview by Laurie Lewis. 30 Oct 2009
• Perspective of the patient and family: the TCAB approach is visible to and appreciated by patients. Interview by Laurie Lewis. 30 Oct 2009
• Creating leaders for the future. 30 Oct 2009
• Spreading TCAB across network hospitals. 30 Oct 2009
• Improving mammography screening. 30 Oct 2009
• A pod design for nursing assignments: eliminating unnecessary steps and increasing patient satisfaction by reconfiguring care assignments. 30 Oct 2009
• Transporting telemetry patients. 30 Oct 2009
• Ring! Ring!: safeguarding patient information with password protection for phone calls. 30 Oct 2009
• Physicians embrace TCAB, too. Interview by Laurie Lewis. 30 Oct 2009
• Quiet time: a daily period without distractions benefits both patients and nurses. 30 Oct 2009
• Resident orientation: nurses create a program to improve care coordination. 30 Oct 2009
• Improving communication among nurses, patients, and physicians. 30 Oct 2009
• Improving communication with bedside video rounding. 30 Oct 2009
• Commitment of the entire organization. Interview by Laurie Lewis. 30 Oct 2009
• TCAB: the 'how' and the 'what'. 30 Oct 2009

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Technical information about 'Total Quality Management'

Definition: The application of industrial management practice to systematically maintain and improve organization-wide performance. Effectiveness and success are determined and assessed by quantitative quality measures.

Descriptor UI: D017749

Alternative terms: Total Quality Management; Management, Total Quality; Continuous Quality Management; Management, Continuous Quality;

Related Mesh Headings: Quality Control;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics; manpower; methods;

Tree Number: N04.452.955; N04.761.700.675; N05.700.792;

History Note: 94

Technical Notes: not restricted to health care; DF: TQM