[Use of health care quality indicators in the study of the therapeutic-diagnostic process]. / Primenenie pokazatelei kachestva meditsinskikh pomoshchi v upravlenii lechebno-diagnosticheskim protsessom.

Definition of the notions "medical care quality" (MCQ) and "medical error" (ME) and their range depending on the negative effect of ME on the status of essential signs of MCQ, obligatory registration and possibility of universal description of all detected ME and their negative consequences by means of automated expert methods helped the authors develop quantitative parameters of the state of 3 components of MCQ. Based on these data, integral value of MCQ state and the structure of facultative MCQ were estimated.