The difficulty of gathering together, organizing, and collating hospital quality assurance information is a common problem for hospital quality assurance departments. Trying to assemble and compare quality data, appearing in multiple locations, from multiple sources, across a time-line often measured in months, may prevent recognition of care patterns indicative of real problems. We describe our development of PC- based software to help deal with collecting and col lating information from the medical records depart ment, infection control, medical audit committees, the medical staff, the nursing units, peer review organi zation data, and multiple other scattered sources. This paper explains how the quality monitors were se lected and the types of statistical reports that such software can generate.
