Quality Circles: An Innovative Program to Improve Military Hospitals

Abstract

Increasing pressure has been applied to the health care industry to reduce costs, improve quality, and increase efficiency. For many years, the Japanese have been using teams of cooperating workers called Quality Circles to increase productivity and assure quality. The concept has been successfully applied in American industry and introduced into hospitals. A Quality Circle consists of employees who voluntarily meet on a regular basis to identify, analyze, and solve quality and other problems in their work areas. This study develops a plan for the implementation of a Quality Circle in a military hospital, as well as a method for its evaluation. Keywords: Quality assurance; Quality control; Military medicine; Hospital administration; Theses.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1982
Accession Number
ADA202678

Entities

People

  • Larry D. Ellis

Organizations

  • Academy of Health Sciences

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Behavior And Behavior Mechanisms
  • Business Administration
  • Education
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Health Care
  • Health Services
  • Human Behavior
  • Identification
  • Management Engineering
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Hospitals
  • Military Organizations
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Training
  • United States

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