Question

Contrast the definitions of implicit and explicit criteria in assessing health care quality. How is each type of criterion useful in quality assessment?

Answer 1

When assessing quality care, the definition of quality care must be visible, and the standard of healthcare assessment must be set. In case of implicit criteria are criteria that are flexible to the specific features of each case thus they make it easier to have a more tailored assessment for each patient. Explicit criteria for assessing the quality of healthcare has an appeal to practitioners as such criteria make it possible to have consistent judgments, that are arrived openly. The process of their formulation encourages more critical scrutiny of current practice, identifying what the generality of practitioners can accept, and what is still doubtful. As instruments of social control, explicit criteria are a two-edged sword-vehicles for the best that medicine can offer or instruments of institutionalized and pervasive error.