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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><ref name="pmid17684190">{{cite journal| author=Shortell SM, Rundall TG, Hsu J| title=Improving patient care by linking evidence-based medicine and evidence-based management. | journal=JAMA | year= 2007 | volume= 298 | issue= 6 | pages= 673-6 | pmid=17684190 | doi=10.1001/jama.298.6.673 | pmc= | url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=17684190  }} </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>
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][2]

The Institute of Medicine has addressed this topic.[3]

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