{"title":"The Quality Manager","authors":"Lionel L Wilson AM, MB, BS","doi":"10.1046/j.1440-1762.2000.00375.x","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p> <b>Abstract</b> In the entire quality management jigsaw, no one piece is more important than an adequately trained and qualified quality manager. The terms quality co-ordinator and quality improvement officer do nothing to assist the understanding of this vital member of a hospital’s staff. This paper describes the qualifications and role of a quality manager and emphasises that few such qualified quality managers exist in Australian hospitals.</p>","PeriodicalId":79407,"journal":{"name":"Journal of quality in clinical practice","volume":"20 4","pages":"127-130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2008-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1046/j.1440-1762.2000.00375.x","citationCount":"9","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of quality in clinical practice","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1440-1762.2000.00375.x","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract In the entire quality management jigsaw, no one piece is more important than an adequately trained and qualified quality manager. The terms quality co-ordinator and quality improvement officer do nothing to assist the understanding of this vital member of a hospital’s staff. This paper describes the qualifications and role of a quality manager and emphasises that few such qualified quality managers exist in Australian hospitals.