Staff review committees are the most common specific approach to quality assurance. The audit, the major tool used to evaluate quality of care, consists of six steps
A quality assur-ance manager does an audit and six months later returns to see if a problem has been elimi-nated. This step is: 1. The step that involves selecting explicit criteria for quality care
2. The step where records are reviewed
3. The step that includes a peer review of all cases that do not meet criteria
4. The last step in the audit process
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The final step in the audit process involves determining whether problems uncovered in an audit have been eliminated.
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