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18. The Training and Capacity Building Agendas: An Outside View
Pages 145-150

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From page 145...
... PERSONNEL TRAINING The types of personnel that will be needed fall into two major categories. The first includes persons required to staff and operate the quality assurance program—that is, from top to bottom, from the oversight to the provider 145
From page 146...
... Re-educat~on of existing staffs and senior professionals already working in the area will facilitate implementation of the program until organized training programs that would include field experience could be developed to prepare this new cadre of health workers with the tools needed to collect and apply information for quality assurance. CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT The professional staff required for the program will require a diverse group of individuals with many different skills, including persons trained for leadership roles, as managers, in data acquisition and analysis, evaluation, record abstraction, information science, questionnaire development, ethics, and so forth.
From page 147...
... The characteristics of training sites would need to be carefully defined and would certainly have to include adequate faculty to cover all of the disciplines or areas that I mentioned earlier. The training site should also be an active site for research in quality assurance and technology assessment, outcomes research, and health services research broadly defined.
From page 148...
... at the conference. Thus, I see the serious need for expanded opportunities for research training, not only for those professionals who will focus on research specifically on quality-of-care measurement and quality assurance, but also for those who will do health services research, technology assessment, and other research providing data on effectiveness and outcome—the information base for much of quality assurance.
From page 149...
... Pp. 174-178 in Medicare: New Directions in Quality Assurance.


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