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In [[health care quality assurance]], '''total quality management''', also called continuous quality management, is "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."<ref>{{MeSH}}</ref>
In [[health care quality assurance]], '''total quality management''', also called continuous quality management, is "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."<ref>{{MeSH}}</ref>
The [[Institute of Medicine]] has addressed this topic.<ref>{{cite book |author=Fanjiang, Gary; Reid, Proctor P.; Grossman, Jerome H. |title=[http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11378 Building a better delivery system: a new engineering/health care partnership] |publisher=National Academies Press |location=Washington, D.C |year=2005 |pages= |isbn=0-309-09643-X |oclc= |doi= |accessdate=}}</ref>


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In health care quality assurance, total quality management, also called continuous quality management, is "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."[1]

The Institute of Medicine has addressed this topic.[2]

References

  1. Anonymous (2024), Total quality management (English). Medical Subject Headings. U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  2. Fanjiang, Gary; Reid, Proctor P.; Grossman, Jerome H. (2005). Building a better delivery system: a new engineering/health care partnership. Washington, D.C: National Academies Press. ISBN 0-309-09643-X.