DODD 6025.13
MEDICAL QUALITY ASSURANCE AND CLINICAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT IN THE MILITARY HEALTH SYSTEM
Organization: | DODD |
Publication Date: | 26 July 2023 |
Status: | active |
Page Count: | 38 |
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Purpose:
In accordance with the authority of DoD Directive 5124.02, this issuance:
• Establishes policy, assigns responsibilities, and provides procedures for medical quality assurance and clinical quality management (CQM), consistent with the requirements of Section 744 of the William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021.
• Authorizes the Defense Health Agency (DHA) to issue further guidance involving medical quality assurance, CQM programs, activities for all military medical treatment facilities (MTFs), and all operational clinical services to the extent practicable, in the Military Health System (MHS).
• Supersedes the February 13, 2012 Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs Memorandum but only with respect to the reporting of sentinel events.