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

Implicit involve association outside conscious awareness that lead to negative evaluation of person on the basis of irrelevant characteristics like gender or race.

Explicit basically involve standards. They may take the form of , procedure,, clinical practice guidelines,, treatment protocols,, or expecting health care outcomes.

Implicit is useful in assessment for health professionals because implicit basically involve gender or race,, it can is useful in healthcare because there are many diseases which frequently occurs in females, similarly many diseases which are commonly found in one race.

Explicit plays a bigger role in assessment as, before starting any assessment ,one should have proper knowledge, should know the procedure for assessing that condition,, should follow protocol for assessment, and explicit provide all these knowledge.