Thanks.

Thank you all for your responses; your answers were very interesting. 

QA may be more related to money, greed, politics and power than anything else, with concerns for patient care being at the very bottom of that list.  It really seems that much of the QA process has little to do with patient care, maybe a little more to do with the billing process, though I'm not sure how it is that many of the nitpicky grammar rules affect patient care OR billing.  For instance, consider the rule about capitalization of brand names of drugs, with generics in lowercase; I'm not sure how that affects patient care.  Doctors order the medications, pharmacies fill the prescriptions, nurses dispense the medications.  I don't think capitalizing or not makes any difference to these groups of hospital staff. 

If accuracy and patient care were the main objective of QA, I don't think there would be production quotas.  When both of these (QA and production quotas) exist in the same situation, there seems to be a contradiction of purpose. 

It is still a mystery as to when the QA process for MTs began and who started it. It seems that AAMT/now AHDI, established themselves as the experts in the field through advertising and marketing, while a lot of gullible people in the MT field bought it.  It seems to me that the people who write and market the line of Stedman reference books did the same.  Both of these companies still do engage in some very clever and convincing marketing campaigns.

I will shut up now.  Thank you all again for your input.

• QA -- WHEN DID IT START? WHO INVENTED IT, ETC?? - Alice
  • This would make a good Seinfeld routine. - MT4ever
  • QA stems from regulatory requirements - sm
  • That would be a book I would read! - Horski
  • There has always been some form of - sm
    • QA started since there are not enough - qualified MTs to produce a perfect product.
      • back in the old days - oldmt
      • Thanks. - Alice
        • Actually if I were you, I would rely on - Stedman's. They've been around a while.
          • Busywork for QA - sm
          • FINAL QA COMMENTS - Alice
            • That sounds awful. Pay reductions? sm - I do QA myself

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