Continuous Quality Assurance in Public Health

Quality Assurance (CQA) in Public Health Introduction In health care institutions, there is a growing emphasis on patient-physician inclusive of cost-effective treatment. Quality management is an increasing concern for mental healthcare facilities. A psychiatrist would need to follow the progress of treatment and its outcome to check and improve the quality of care provided. Continuous monitoring and quality assurance of delivery of quality care in mental institutions are increasingly becoming important (Sass, 2008). The reasons for continuous assurance is due to the increasing costs in medical treatment, enhancing options of making comparisons in treatment and success outcomes by agencies that make reimbursement. Suggestions from epidemiological and clinical researches of variances in clinical practice are unexplainable by the present state of knowledge in psychiatry (Donald, 2001). Many medical specialties have their clinical outcome and databases developed, yet psychiatry is lagging behind.