Avedis Donabedian
Biographic Data
| ID | 4399661 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Avedis Donabedian |
| GIVEN NAMES | Avedis |
| FAMILY NAME | Donabedian |
| SIGNATURE | DONABÉDIAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1958 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Evaluating the Quality of Medical Care
This paper is an attempt to describe andevaluate current methods for assessing the quality of medicalcare and to suggest some directions for further study. It is con-cerned with methods rather than findings, and with an evaluation of methodology in general, rather than a detailed critique of methods in specific studies. This is not an exhaustive review of the pertinent literature. Certain key studies, of course, have been included. Other papers h…
The Quality of Care
Before assessment can begin we must decide how quality is to be defined and that depends on whether one assesses only the performance of practitioners or also the contributions of patients and of the health care system; on how broadly health and responsibility for health are defined; on whether the maximally effective or optimally effective care is sought; and on whether individual or social preferences define the optimum. We also need detailed i…
State intervention in medical care
This article attempts to develop some of the basic elements for a theory of state intervention in medical care. First, a typology of state intervention is proposed based on two dimensions: the form of state control over the production of medical services and the basis for eligibility of the population. The resulting twelve types provide a means of describing national patterns of state intervention at a given point in time. Next, in order to analy…
Volume, Quality, and the Regionalization of Health Care Services
Quality, Cost, and Clinical Decisions
Clinical decisions require determining the objectives of care as well as selecting and implementing a strategy of care. At the very least the optimal strategy balances the expected benefit and harm from technical interventions. Health care practitioners tend to specify optimal strategies based on what they consider to be best for patients, without regard to monetary cost. This is an absolutist definition of quality. Individuals may place differen…
Quality, Cost, and Health
This article presents an integrative model of the relations among health status, quality of care, and resource expenditure. It defines medical care quality in terms of outcomes, measured as the expected improvements in health status attributable to care. The consideration of how quality so defined is affected by the unconstrained, efficient use of resources for care leads to the specification of the absolutist definition of quality. Consideration…
Criteria, norms and standards of quality
Quality assessment requires specification of: 1) a set of phenomena that are usually attributes of either process or outcome; 2) a general rule of what constitutes goodness; and 3) a precise numerical statement of what constitutes acceptable or optimal goodness with respect to each of these phenomena. The terms "criteria," "norms," and "standards," as currently employed, do not correspond well with these three components, but they could be used e…
Equity in the Distribution of Quality of Care
This article examines whether the quality of health care services in the United States is equitably distributed across all groups in the population, especially groups defined by age, race, sex, and income characteristics. The framework within which the question is answered draws distinctions among structural, process, and outcome inequities. The available evidence suggests that all three types of inequity are present, at least to some extent. How…
Issues in national health insurance
Health insurance, by reducing net price to the consumer and increasing the opportunities for revenue to the provider, has profound effects, among other things, on the volume, content and distribution of services, their prices, and the capacity of providers to produce them. The magnitude and nature of these effects depend, partly, on the design of insurance benefits and, partly, on the nature of the health care system, particularly its current and…
Health Administration for What
An examination of some directions in health care policy
An examination of some directions in health care policy. A DonabedianCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.63.3.243 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Report of the Committee on Evaluation and Standards
Report of the Committee on Evaluation and Standards Report of the Chairman, 1970 Affiliation James H. Steele, Mary Arnold, E. Kenneth Aycock, Arthur G. Baker, Fred M. Davenport, Avedis Donabedian, Irving D. Goldberg, Erwin Neter, Theodore A. Olsen, Eva M. Reese, Kent T. Roark, Irwin M. Rosenstock, George A. Silver, and Henry C. Steed, Jr. CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.61.2.406 Published Online: August 29, 2011
Quality of care
Quality of care: problems of measurement. II. Some issues in evaluating the quality of nursing care. A DonabedianCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.59.10.1833 Published Online: August 29, 2011
Promoting Quality through Evaluating the Process of Patient Care
Professor of Medical Care Organization, School of Public Health, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Evaluating the Quality of Medical Care
Avedis Donabedian, Evaluating the Quality of Medical Care, The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly, Vol. 44, No. 3, Part 2: Health Services Research I. A Series of Papers Commissioned by the Health Services Research Study Section of the United States Public Health Service. Discussed at a Conference Held in Chicago, October 15-16, 1965 (Jul., 1966), pp. 166-206
Psychiatric Insurance
PSYCHIATRIC INSURANCE Avedis Donabedian CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.53.5.845-a Published Online: August 29, 2011
Organizing Medical Care Programs to Meet Health Needs
Medical care in the United States is organized around a large number of agencies both governmental and non- governmental, with insufficient co-ordination among them and no effective machinery for over-all planning. There are short ages and maldistribution of both personnel and facilities. The rise in specialization has resulted in continued decline in the number and status of the family physician. Organized group practice, which may offer one pos…
Prenatal Care in Metropolitan Boston
Prenatal Care in Metropolitan Boston Leonard S. Rosenfeld, and Avedis Donabedian CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.48.9.1115 Published Online: August 29, 2011
State intervention in medical care
This article attempts to develop some of the basic elements for a theory of state intervention in medical care. First, a typology of state intervention is proposed based on two dimensions: the form of state control over the production of medical services and the basis for eligibility of the population. The resulting twelve types provide a means of describing national patterns of state intervention at a given point in time. Next, in order to analy…
Criteria, norms and standards of quality
Quality assessment requires specification of: 1) a set of phenomena that are usually attributes of either process or outcome; 2) a general rule of what constitutes goodness; and 3) a precise numerical statement of what constitutes acceptable or optimal goodness with respect to each of these phenomena. The terms "criteria," "norms," and "standards," as currently employed, do not correspond well with these three components, but they could be used e…
Issues in national health insurance
Health insurance, by reducing net price to the consumer and increasing the opportunities for revenue to the provider, has profound effects, among other things, on the volume, content and distribution of services, their prices, and the capacity of providers to produce them. The magnitude and nature of these effects depend, partly, on the design of insurance benefits and, partly, on the nature of the health care system, particularly its current and…
Organizing Medical Care Programs to Meet Health Needs
Medical care in the United States is organized around a large number of agencies both governmental and non- governmental, with insufficient co-ordination among them and no effective machinery for over-all planning. There are short ages and maldistribution of both personnel and facilities. The rise in specialization has resulted in continued decline in the number and status of the family physician. Organized group practice, which may offer one pos…
Quality, Cost, and Clinical Decisions
Clinical decisions require determining the objectives of care as well as selecting and implementing a strategy of care. At the very least the optimal strategy balances the expected benefit and harm from technical interventions. Health care practitioners tend to specify optimal strategies based on what they consider to be best for patients, without regard to monetary cost. This is an absolutist definition of quality. Individuals may place differen…
An examination of some directions in health care policy
An examination of some directions in health care policy. A DonabedianCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.63.3.243 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Health Administration for What
Prenatal Care in Metropolitan Boston
Prenatal Care in Metropolitan Boston Leonard S. Rosenfeld, and Avedis Donabedian CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.48.9.1115 Published Online: August 29, 2011
Organizing Medical Care Programs to Meet Health Needs
Medical care in the United States is organized around a large number of agencies both governmental and non- governmental, with insufficient co-ordination among them and no effective machinery for over-all planning. There are short ages and maldistribution of both personnel and facilities. The rise in specialization has resulted in continued decline in the number and status of the family physician. Organized group practice, which may offer one pos…
Psychiatric Insurance
PSYCHIATRIC INSURANCE Avedis Donabedian CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.53.5.845-a Published Online: August 29, 2011
Evaluating the Quality of Medical Care
Avedis Donabedian, Evaluating the Quality of Medical Care, The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly, Vol. 44, No. 3, Part 2: Health Services Research I. A Series of Papers Commissioned by the Health Services Research Study Section of the United States Public Health Service. Discussed at a Conference Held in Chicago, October 15-16, 1965 (Jul., 1966), pp. 166-206
Promoting Quality through Evaluating the Process of Patient Care
Professor of Medical Care Organization, School of Public Health, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Quality of care
Quality of care: problems of measurement. II. Some issues in evaluating the quality of nursing care. A DonabedianCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.59.10.1833 Published Online: August 29, 2011
Report of the Committee on Evaluation and Standards
Report of the Committee on Evaluation and Standards Report of the Chairman, 1970 Affiliation James H. Steele, Mary Arnold, E. Kenneth Aycock, Arthur G. Baker, Fred M. Davenport, Avedis Donabedian, Irving D. Goldberg, Erwin Neter, Theodore A. Olsen, Eva M. Reese, Kent T. Roark, Irwin M. Rosenstock, George A. Silver, and Henry C. Steed, Jr. CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.61.2.406 Published Online: August 29, 2011
An examination of some directions in health care policy
An examination of some directions in health care policy. A DonabedianCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.63.3.243 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Health Administration for What
Issues in national health insurance
Health insurance, by reducing net price to the consumer and increasing the opportunities for revenue to the provider, has profound effects, among other things, on the volume, content and distribution of services, their prices, and the capacity of providers to produce them. The magnitude and nature of these effects depend, partly, on the design of insurance benefits and, partly, on the nature of the health care system, particularly its current and…
Criteria, norms and standards of quality
Quality assessment requires specification of: 1) a set of phenomena that are usually attributes of either process or outcome; 2) a general rule of what constitutes goodness; and 3) a precise numerical statement of what constitutes acceptable or optimal goodness with respect to each of these phenomena. The terms "criteria," "norms," and "standards," as currently employed, do not correspond well with these three components, but they could be used e…
Equity in the Distribution of Quality of Care
This article examines whether the quality of health care services in the United States is equitably distributed across all groups in the population, especially groups defined by age, race, sex, and income characteristics. The framework within which the question is answered draws distinctions among structural, process, and outcome inequities. The available evidence suggests that all three types of inequity are present, at least to some extent. How…
Quality, Cost, and Health
This article presents an integrative model of the relations among health status, quality of care, and resource expenditure. It defines medical care quality in terms of outcomes, measured as the expected improvements in health status attributable to care. The consideration of how quality so defined is affected by the unconstrained, efficient use of resources for care leads to the specification of the absolutist definition of quality. Consideration…
Quality, Cost, and Clinical Decisions
Clinical decisions require determining the objectives of care as well as selecting and implementing a strategy of care. At the very least the optimal strategy balances the expected benefit and harm from technical interventions. Health care practitioners tend to specify optimal strategies based on what they consider to be best for patients, without regard to monetary cost. This is an absolutist definition of quality. Individuals may place differen…
Volume, Quality, and the Regionalization of Health Care Services
State intervention in medical care
This article attempts to develop some of the basic elements for a theory of state intervention in medical care. First, a typology of state intervention is proposed based on two dimensions: the form of state control over the production of medical services and the basis for eligibility of the population. The resulting twelve types provide a means of describing national patterns of state intervention at a given point in time. Next, in order to analy…
The Quality of Care
Before assessment can begin we must decide how quality is to be defined and that depends on whether one assesses only the performance of practitioners or also the contributions of patients and of the health care system; on how broadly health and responsibility for health are defined; on whether the maximally effective or optimally effective care is sought; and on whether individual or social preferences define the optimum. We also need detailed i…
Evaluating the Quality of Medical Care
This paper is an attempt to describe andevaluate current methods for assessing the quality of medicalcare and to suggest some directions for further study. It is con-cerned with methods rather than findings, and with an evaluation of methodology in general, rather than a detailed critique of methods in specific studies. This is not an exhaustive review of the pertinent literature. Certain key studies, of course, have been included. Other papers h…
Medicine (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Healthcare Policy and Management (10 works) · Business (9 works) · Quality (philosophy) (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Health care (8 works) · Actuarial science (6 works) · Nursing (6 works) · Economics (5 works)