Health Care Quality

For a physician to deliver "good" quality care they must have more than just medical knowledge. They need to be culturally competent, provide preventive care, have good personal skills, etc. Quality care involves delivering medical care in an effective way, always having the patients best interests. Quality care is difficult to accomplish because every case/patient is different, and its difficult to standardize care. Its subjective..."good"quality care for one patient, may be something very different for another. However, one way to help tackle this complex issue, is for hospitals to enforcing clinical practicing guidelines (CPGs). These guidelines offer a suggested course of action/treatment for the physician to follow. By having guidelines, it standardizes care and guarantees patients quality/appropriate medical treatment while eliminating extra costs and unnecessary services. Physicians can use these guidelines as a foundation and adapt their form of delivery according to the patient.