World Development Group offers various services and resources to assess, assure, and improve the quality of health care; quality management (QM), quality improvement (QI) and patient safety (PS).

Dr. Peter Goldschmidt, the president of this organization, is an expert on national health policy, medical technology assessment, and health care quality management.

Services

World Development Group offers consulting services to design, evaluate, and improve quality and patient safety environments, structures, processes, and outcomes. In 2004, we introduced our audit of quality and patient safety processes for hospitals and integrated delivery networks. Services include the design and evaluation of:

• Clinical guidelines/pathways
• Cost-effectiveness models
• Evidence-based practices; information synthesis/meta-analyses
• Health services research studies
• Medical technology assessment methods/procedures
• Quality of care measures; health outcomes
• Quality management processes; QA/QI
• Patient safety processes
• Pay for performance schemes
• Peer review programs
• Performance measurement methods/systems.

Resources

Quality Management Resource Directory - online

Health Care Quality Management Resources Directory (1998-1999 print edition)
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Quality Management in Health Care (comprehensive manual)  
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