A professional who interprets and implements quality assurance standards in hospital to ensure quality care to patients. Responsibilities include:

• Reviews quality assurance standards, studies existing hospital policies and procedures, and interviews hospital personnel and patients to evaluate effectiveness of quality assurance program.
• Writes quality assurance policies and procedures.
• Reviews and evaluates patients' medical records, applying quality assurance criteria.
• Selects specific topics for review, such as problem procedures, drugs, high volume cases, high risk cases, or other factors.
• Compiles statistical data and writes narrative reports summarizing quality assurance findings.
• May review patient records, applying utilization review criteria, to determine need for admission and continued stay in hospital.
• May oversee personnel engaged in quality assurance review of medical records.