Quality assurance.

This paper explores the pursuit of quality in the area of clinical/biomedical engineering from the perspective of one who looks at the methods for measuring quality from the outside. The health care world is running in many different directions to identify methods for defining and measuring quality. Yet, quality assurance is not a magical process to eliminate all ills from health care. It is a cyclical management process that may make the difference between the long-term growth and development of clinical engineering and the alternative elimination of that function.