Complex Approach to Evaluating Quality of Medical Care in Pediatrics

Abstract

The article is dedicated to evaluating quality of medical care of children. Improvement of this parameter and public health indicators is the key goal of a healthcare system of any country at the moment. The authors analyzed different systems of evaluating quality of medical care of children and demonstrated their benefits and drawbacks. The article presents a complex algorithm of evaluating quality of medical care developed by the authors; it involves structural, procedural and effective components of this term and corresponds with a complex model of simultaneous control organization on the professional level as well as on the regulatory level with due regard to the degree of specialist/patient interaction.

Keywords

• quality of medical care
• children
• medical care quality control
• complex evaluation algorithm
• audit
• point system