The strategies and methods of the total quality management (TQM) need to applied in quality management of radiation therapy. We should improve the level of quality control and quality assurance in radiation therapy. By establishing quality control system in radiation therapy, standardization of radiation therapy workflow, strengthening quality control of devices and physical technique and paying attention to safety protection and staff training.
Quality Assurance, Health Care ; organization & administration ; Quality Control ; Radiotherapy ; Total Quality Management

In 2003, JCI certification was introduced to create our new hospital quality management system. Our department imaging facilities management level and service quality markedly improved through JCI certification and re-evaluation. It played an important role in improving the efficiency and extending the life of medical facilities, reducing maintenance costs.
Certification ; organization & administration ; Hospital Administration ; Nuclear Medicine ; instrumentation ; Quality Assurance, Health Care ; methods ; organization & administration

This article presents and discusses the measurement of absolute dose in radiation therapy, aiming to achieve the requires of quality assurance in radiotherapy by WHO and enhance the tumor control probability.
Neoplasms ; radiotherapy ; Quality Assurance, Health Care ; Quality Control ; Radiation Oncology ; organization & administration ; Radiotherapy Dosage ; Safety Management

China ; Pathology Department, Hospital ; manpower ; organization & administration ; standards ; Pathology, Clinical ; organization & administration ; standards ; Quality Assurance, Health Care ; organization & administration

INTRODUCTIONCore curricula including Ethics, Medico-legal issues, Socioeconomics, and Quality Improvement (QI) are relevant and significant for graduate medical education programmes, regardless of specialty. A lack of faculty expertise in these content areas is a frequently cited concern among specialty programmes in graduate medical education. We report the results of an institutional systems-approach to assist this challenge. Our institution has 86 post-graduate residency and fellowship training programmes serving 1068 learners. Directors of these programmes expressed the need for a centralised approach to teach learners about insurance systems and the basics of QI.

MATERIALS AND METHODSTwo subject matter experts in the fields of insurance systems and 1 expert in QI conducted 2 institution-wide didactics on each of the content areas, attended by 192 and 225 learners respectively.

RESULTSSignificant improvement in learner knowledge was noted for all 3 knowledge-based questions for both content areas (P <0.0001). Learner self-assessment of knowledge of insurance systems increased from a pre-session mean of 2.86 to a post-session mean of 3.80 (P <0.0001) and from 3.29 to a post-session mean of 4.17 (P <0.0001) for the QI didactics.

CONCLUSIONSystems-wide didactic sessions for learners of different residencies has several advantages including the efficient use of content experts, prevention of resource burnout, and cost effectiveness. This strategy may also assist programmes directors in meeting external accreditation requirements.

In this paper, by describing and comparing different implementations of electronic film combined with the actual application of the electronic film in the imaging department and the clinical departments. We elaborate electronic film for optimizing the imaging department workflow to improve service quality and patient satisfaction and other aspects of value.
Diagnostic Imaging ; instrumentation ; Hospital Information Systems ; organization & administration ; Quality Assurance, Health Care ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; X-Ray Film

ISO9000 quality management system (ISO9000QMS) emphasize on the customer-oriented, managers' leadership and all staff's joining, adopt the process method and system management, spread the taking facts as a basis to make decision and improve consistently, and establish win-win relation with the suppliers. So, the digital hospital can adopt the ISO9000QMS. In order to establish the ISO9000QMS, the digital hospital should: (1) Design integrally, including analyzing the operation procedure, clarifying the job duties, setting up the spreading team and setting the quality policy and objectives: (2) Learning the ISO9000 quality standards; (3) Drawing up the documents, including the quality manual, program files and operation guiding files; (4) Training according the documents; (5) Executing the quality standard, including the service quality auditing, quality record auditing and quality system auditing; (6) Improving continually. With the establishment of ISO900QMS, the digital hospital can appraise more accurately, analyze quality matters statistically and avoid the interference of artificial factors.
Hospital Administration ; legislation & jurisprudence ; standards ; Hospitals, Public ; legislation & jurisprudence ; standards ; Management Audit ; standards ; Quality Assurance, Health Care ; organization & administration ; Quality Control ; Total Quality Management ; methods ; standards

This paper describes a patient security detection system developed with two dimensional bar codes, wireless communication and removal storage technique. Based on the system, nurses and correlative personnel check code wait operation patient to prevent the defaults. The tests show the system is effective. Its objectivity and currency are more scientific and sophisticated than current traditional method in domestic hospital.
Automatic Data Processing ; organization & administration ; Computer Communication Networks ; Humans ; Operating Room Information Systems ; organization & administration ; Patient Identification Systems ; methods ; Quality Assurance, Health Care ; methods ; Safety

This article makes a pilot study on the key points of the quality management system of in-vitro diagnostic reagents by analyzing the technical characteristics and production methods of these products as well as the status in quo, and problems the in-vitro diagnostic reagent industry in China is facing nowadays. It can serve as a reference to the supervision departments and the manufacturers in this field which are establishing and running the quality management system.
China ; Equipment and Supplies ; standards ; Humans ; Indicators and Reagents ; chemistry ; standards ; Pilot Projects ; Quality Assurance, Health Care ; organization & administration ; Quality Control ; Reagent Kits, Diagnostic ; standards ; Safety Management ; Technology, Pharmaceutical ; organization & administration ; standards ; Total Quality Management

Clinical Medicine ; Comprehensive Health Care ; organization & administration ; standards ; Decision Making, Computer-Assisted ; Evaluation Studies as Topic ; Humans ; Models, Theoretical ; Outcome Assessment, Health Care ; methods ; Quality Assurance, Health Care ; methods ; Research Design