Por ello, queremos contribuir a hacer más asequible su legado intelectual y humano a la comunidad iberoamericana.
De familia armenia, nació en Beirut en el año 1919 y creció cerca de Jerusalén. En 1954 se mudó a Boston y al año siguiente se graduó en la Universidad de Harvard en Salud Pública. Trabajó durante 28 años en Ann Arbor en la Escuela de Salud Pública en la Universidad de Michigan.
Su aportación en la sistematización de conocimientos dentro de las ciencias de la Salud, especialmente centrada en la mejora de la calidad asistencial, ha sido reconocida mundialmente y es merecedora de varios gualardones. Desarrolló el enfoque de estructura, proceso y resultado, que se convirtió en la base para medir y mejorar la calidad de la atención sanitaria. Estas contribuciones están recogidas en Evaluación de la Calidad de la Atención Médica (1966), y se esforzó por definir todos los aspectos de la calidad en los sistemas de salud y los modelos propuestos para su medición; se encuentran en más de 100 artículos y 11 libros.
También fue un poeta y un apasionado de la literatura, capaz de leer con fluidez en seis lenguas diferentes. De hecho, escribió poesia toda su vida y, cerca de su muerte, escribió que era en su poesia donde se podía apreciar mejor quién era él.
En definitiva, fue una persona extraordinaria, que, con su generosidad, enriquecía las vidas de quiénes le conocieron.
(2001) Findings, Findings 16(2), p. 4-13; 29; 34
(2001) An expert on Health Care evaluates his own case, The New York Times - Health, p. 5
(2001) Calidad Monográfico sobre la obra del Profesor Avedis Donabedian, Revista de calidad asistencial 16, p. 1-144
(2001) A founder of quality assessment encounters a troubled system firsthand. Interview by Fitzhugh Mullan, Health affairs (Project Hope) 20(1), p. 137-41, pubmed
(2000) HYRIA -POEMS, Hyria, p. 36-42
(2000) Evaluating physician competence, Bulletin of the World Health Organization 78(6), p. 8
(2000) Obituary Avedis Donabedian, Bulletin of the World Health Organization 78(12), p. 1475-1475, World Health Organization, url, doi:10.1590/s0042-96862000001200017
(1999) Past and Future at Eighty, p. 9
(1999) El pasado y el futuro a los ochenta años, Rev Calidad Asistencial 14, p. 785-787
(1999) Mayordomía de la calidad en la vida y el trabajo de Codman, Medicina y Sociedad 22(3-4), p. 180-183
(1998) L'assurance qualité dans les structures de soins: "Surtout de la motivation et de la détermination", Bolus. Revue d'information des anesthésistes-réanimateurs Novembre(10-13)
(1998) Quality Stewardship in Codman's Life and Work, The Joint Commission Journal 24(1), p. 52-55
(1998) Interview with Avedis Donabedian, -personal notes-
(1998) History of Health Services Research Project. Interview with Avedis Donabedian, U.S. National Library of Medicine(April), U.S. National Library of Medicine, url
(1997) Dr. Avedis Donabedian is internationally recognized for his work in Quality Assessment and Quality Assurance in Health Care, The Armenian Reporter Int'l, p. 14-15
(1997) Acerca del Modelo Médico-Hegemónico, Medicina y Sociedad 20, p. 262-263
(1997) In transition POEMS, In transsition, p. 3
(1997) 1997 HYRIA.pdf, HYRIA
(1997) The quality of care. How can it be assessed? 1988., Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine 121(11), p. 1145-50, pubmed
(1996) Garantia de la calidad ¿Quién es el responsable?, Sociedad Mexicana de Calidad de la Atención a la Salud (SOMECASA) 3(1-2), p. 1-11
(1996) The effectiveness of quality assurance, Int J Qual Health Care 8(4), p. 401-7, pdf
(1996) Interview with Avedis Donabedian, M.D. Interview by Gordon Brown., American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality 11(4), p. 167-72, pubmed
(1995) Recollection of fugitive loves - POEMS, p. 11
(1995) For the public good. Highlights from the Institute of Medicine, 1970-1995, National Academy Press, p. 52-57
(1995) What have we learned, UM Forum on Healthy Policy, p. 1-9
(1994) La contribucion de los consumidores.pdf, PUNTEXPRESS 157, p. 1-2
(1994) Aktiva konsumenter helt avgörande för vardens kvalitet.pdf, SPRIDA, p. 39-42
(1994) Una reconsideracion de las responsabilidades.pdf, Los mejores hospitales de España
(1994) Continuidad y cambio en la búsqueda.pdf, Rev Calidad Asistencial 1, p. 31-39
(1993) Quality issues and regional health performance comparisons, Hellenic Committee for HOPE Programme, p. 69-74
(1993) Continuidad y cambio en la búsqueda de la calidad, Salud pública de México 35(3), p. 238-47, pubmed
(1993) Prioridades para el progreso en la evaluación y monitoreo de la calidad de la atención, Salud pública de México 35(1), p. 94-7, pubmed
(1993) Continuity and change in the quest for quality., Clinical performance and quality health care 1(1), p. 9-16, pubmed
(1993) Avedis Donabedian: an interview. Interview by Richard Baker., Quality in health care : QHC 2(1), p. 40-6, pubmed central
(1993) Quality in health care: whose responsibility is it?, American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality 8(2), p. 32-6, pubmed
(1992) E'Possibile Valutare la Qualita Dell'Assistenza Sanitaria? " Psicomed 1: 37-41. Tampa. A. 10. Chapel Hill. November 1992 Donabedian.. School of Public ..., Psicomed 1, p. 37-41
(1992) The Lichfield Lecture. Quality assurance in health care: consumers' role., Quality in health care : QHC 1(4), p. 247-51, pubmed central
(1992) The role of outcomes in quality assessment and assurance., QRB. Quality review bulletin 18(11), p. 356-60, pubmed
(1991) Defining and Measuring the quality of Health Care, Assessing Quality Health Care, p. 41-34
(1991) Reflections on the Effectivenes of quality Asssurance, Striving for Quality in Health Care, p. 61-129
(1990) The process of Quality Assurance, Dept. Health services Administration and Community Medicine. Faculty of Mecidine. University of Alberta, p. 20
(1990) Perspectivas en Salud Pública. Garantía y Monitoría de la calidad de la atención médica, Instituto Nacional de Salud, p. 75
(1990) La dimensión iternacional de la evaluación y garantía de calidad, Salud Pubica Mex 32, p. 113-117
(1990) Contributions of epidemiology to quality assessment and monitoring., Infection control and hospital epidemiology 11(3), p. 117-21, pubmed
(1990) The seven pillars of quality, Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine 114(11), p. 1115-8, pubmed
(1990) La dimensión internacional de la evaluación y garantía de la calidad, Salud pública de México 32(2), p. 113-7, pubmed
(1990) Specialization in clinical performance monitoring. What it is and how to achieve it., Quality assurance and utilization review : official journal of the American College of Utilization Review Physicians 5(4), p. 114-20, pubmed
(1990) Ernest A. Codman, MD, the end result idea and The Product of a Hospital. A commentary., Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine 114(11), p. 1105, pubmed
(1989) The end results of health care: Ernest Codman's contribution to quality assessment and beyond., The Milbank quarterly 67(2), p. 233-56; discussion 257-67, pubmed
(1989) Quality of Care and the Health Needs of the Elderly Patient, Institute of Medicine, p. 3-13
(1989) L'ABC della Quality Assurance e del monitoraggio dell'assistenza sanitaria, Quality Assurance 1(2), p. 6-19
(1989) Hacia una visión integradora de la investigación y la educación en salud pública, Salud Pubica Mex 31(4), p. 569-573
(1989) La calidad de la asistencia. ¿Cómo podría ser evaluada?, JANO 36, p. 103-110
(1989) A Primer of Quality Assurance and Monitoring in Medical Care, University of Toledo Law Review 20, p. 401453, url
(1989) Staffing and training aspects of hospital management: some issues for research., Medical care review 46(2), p. 189-220, pubmed
(1989) The quest for quality health care: whose choice? Whose responsibility?, The Mount Sinai journal of medicine, New York 56(5), p. 406-22, pubmed
(1989) Institutional and professional responsibilities in quality assurance., Quality assurance in health care : the official journal of the International Society for Quality Assurance in Health Care / ISQA 1(1), p. 3-11, pubmed
(1988) The assessment of technology and quality. A comparative study of certainties and ambiguities., International journal of technology assessment in health care 4(4), p. 487-96, Cambridge University Press, pubmed, doi:10.1017/S0266462300007571
(1988) Towards an integrated approach of research and education in public health, Salud pública de México 31(4), p. 569-73, pubmed
(1988) Quality assessment and assurance: unity of purpose, diversity of means, Inquiry 25(1), p. 173-92
(1988) Monitoring: the eyes and ears of healthcare., Health progress (Saint Louis, Mo.) 69(9), p. 38-43, pubmed
(1988) The quality of care. How can it be assessed?, JAMA 260(12), p. 1743-8, pubmed
(1988) Quality and cost: choices and responsibilities., Journal of occupational medicine. : official publication of the Industrial Medical Association 25(12), p. 90-9, url
(1987) Intervención del estado en la atención médica: tipos, tendencias y variables, Investigación sobre servicios de salud, p. 16
(1987) Advances in health assessment conference discussion panel, Journal of Chronic Diseases 40, p. 183S-191S, Elsevier, url, doi:10.1016/S0021-9681(87)80049-8
(1987) Los Sistemas Nacionales de Salud. Una perspectiva comparativa, Revista de Administración Pública 1(69), url
(1987) Cándido en el país de la investigación en servicios de salud, Salud Pubica Mex 29(6), p. 520-30
(1987) Commentary on some studies on the quality of care., Health care financing review Spec No, p. 75-85, pubmed central
(1987) Five essential questions frame the management of quality in health care., Health management quarterly : HMQ 9(1), p. 6-9, pubmed
(1987) State intervention in medical care: types, trends and variables., Health policy and planning 2(1), p. 17-31, pubmed
(1987) Assessing the quality of care in a hospital emergency unit: a framework and its application., QRB. Quality review bulletin 13(1), p. 4-16, pubmed
(1986) The Price of Quality and the Perplexities of Care, HMO practice / HMO Group 5(1), p. 24-8, pubmed
(1986) La investigación sobre la calidad de la atención médica, Salud Pública de México 28(3), p. 324-327, [Secretaría de Salubridad y Asistencia], url
(1986) Quality Assurance in Our Health Care System, American Journal of Medical Quality 1(1), p. 6-12, url
(1986) Quality assurance: corporate responsibility for multihospital systems, QRB. Quality review bulletin 12(1), p. 3-7, pubmed
(1986) Criteria and standards for quality assessment and monitoring., QRB. Quality review bulletin 12(3), p. 99-108, pubmed
(1986) The Baxter American Foundation Prize address., The Journal of health administration education 4(4), p. 611-4, pubmed
(1985) Veinte años de investigación en torno a la calidad de la atención médica, 1964-1984., Salud pública de México 8(2), p. 202-15, pubmed
(1985) The challenge of quality assurance in long term care under private auspices, Quality Assurance in Nursing Home Care, p. 18-29
(1985) Twenty Years of Research on the Quality of Medical Care, Evaluation & the Health Professions 8(3), p. 243-265, SAGE PublicationsSage CA: Los Angeles, CA, url, doi:10.1177/016327878500800301
(1985) Some thoughts on cost containment and the quality of health care, Administration in Mental Health 13(1), p. 5-14, Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press, url, doi:10.1007/BF00819230
(1985) Criteri e Standard, Salute e territorio 43, p. 35-46
(1985) Quality, cost and quality assurance oral health care, Symposium on Quality Assurance and Cost Containment of Oral Health
(1985) The epidemiology of quality, Inquiry 22(3), p. 282-92, pubmed
(1984) Volume, quality, and the regionalization of health care services., Medical care 22(2), p. 95-7, pubmed
(1984) Quality, cost, and cost containment., Nursing outlook 32(3), p. 142-5, pubmed
(1983) Quality, cost, and clinical decisions., The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science(468), p. 196-204, pubmed
(1983) The quality of care in a health maintenance organization: a personal view., Inquiry 20(3), p. 218-22, pubmed
(1983) Quality assessment and monitoring. Retrospect and prospect., Evaluation & the health professions 6(3), p. 363-75, pubmed
(1982) An exploration of structure, process ad outcome as approaches to quality assessment, Quality Assessment of Medical Care, p. 69-92
(1982) Market-oriented cost-containment strategies and quality of care., The Milbank Memorial Fund quarterly. Health and society 60(4), p. 518-50, pubmed
(1982) Quality, cost, and health: an integrative model., Medical care 20(10), p. 975-92, pubmed
(1982) Commentary: physician behavior in response to additional diagnostic information., Inquiry 19(1), p. 89-90, pubmed
(1981) La calidad de la atención médica, Ciencia y Desarrollo 1(marzo-abril), p. 15
(1981) Equity in the distribution of quality of care., Medical care 19(12 Suppl), p. 28-56, pubmed
(1981) Using decision analysis to formulate process criteria for quality assessment., Inquiry 18(2), p. 102-19, pubmed
(1981) Advantages and limitations of explicit criteria for assessing the quality of health care., The Milbank Memorial Fund quarterly. Health and society 59(1), p. 99-106, pubmed
(1981) Perspectives on the Free Choice of the Source of Personal Health Care, Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly/Health abnd Society 59(4), p. 586-595, url
(1981) Criteria, norms and standards of quality: what do they mean?, American journal of public health 71(4), p. 409-12, pubmed central
(1980) Methods for deriving criteria for assessing the quality of medical care., Medical care review 37(7), p. 653-98, pubmed
(1979) The quality of medical care: a concept in search of a definition., The Journal of family practice 9(2), p. 277-84, pubmed
(1978) Needed Research in the Assessment and Monitoring of the quality of Medical Care, NCHSR, p. 40
(1978) Investigación en servicios de salud, Seminario julio 1978, México, p. 15
(1978) The quality of medical care, Science (New York, N.Y.) 200(4344), p. 856-64, pubmed
(1977) The numerology of utilization control revisited: when to recertify, Inquiry 14(1), p. 96-102, pubmed
(1976) Some basic issues in evaluating the quality of health care, American Nurses Association Publications(G-124), p. 3-28, pubmed
(1976) The professional responsibility for the quality of health care. A discussion of methods. Panel discussion., Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 52(1), p. 86-92, pubmed central
(1976) Measuring and evaluating hospital and medical care., Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 52(1), p. 51-9, pubmed central
(1976) Issues in national health insurance, American journal of public health 66(4), p. 345-50, pubmed central
(1976) A frame of reference., QRB. Quality review bulletin 2(6), p. 5-8, 30-2, pubmed
(1976) Effects of MEDICARE and MEDICAID on access to and quality of health care., Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974) 91(4), p. 322-31, pubmed central
(1976) An assessment of the criteria approach to medical care evaluation, Hosp Med Staff 5(9), p. 1-9
(1975) Perspectives on evaluating physician competence, p. 9
(1974) Concepts of Health Care Quality: A Perspective, National Academy of Sciences. Institute of medicine. Washington DC, p. 16, url, doi:10.17226/20185
(1974) The numerology of utilization control., Inquiry 11(3), p. 229-32, pubmed
(1973) An examination of some directions in health care policy., American journal of public health 63(3), p. 243-6, pubmed central
(1972) The quality of medical care, Medicine in a changing society, p. 228, C.V. Mosby Co
(1972) Models for Organizing the Delivery of Personal Health Services and Criteria for Evaluating Them, The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly 50(4), p. 103, WileyMilbank Memorial Fund, url, doi:10.2307/3349436
(1971) Social Responsibility for Personal Health Services: An Examination of Basic Values, Inquiry 8(2), p. 3-19, Sage Publications, Inc., url, doi:10.2307/29770651
(1970) Report of the Committee on Evaluation and Standards, American Journal of Public Health 61(2), p. 406-409, American Public Health Association, url
(1970) Patient care evaluation, Hospitals 44(7), p. 131-6, pubmed
(1969) The sistemic impact of Medicare, Medical Care Review 26, p. 567-585
(1969) An Evaluation of Prepaid Group Practice, Inquiry VI(3), p. 3-27
(1969) Speculation on the Effectiveness of Quality Monitoring, with some thoughts on its possible dangers, A guide to Medical Care Administration. vol II, Medical Care Appraisal, p. 31
(1969) Some issues in health insurance., Le Journal médical libanais. The Lebanese medical journal 22(5), p. 579-89, pubmed
(1969) Quality of care: problems of measurement. II. Some issues in evaluating the quality of nursing care., American journal of public health and the nation's health 59(10), p. 1833-6, pubmed central
(1968) Teaching and Learning About Medical Care Administration by the Case Method
(1968) Financing medical care: Costs and Expenditures, Institute of Planning and Administration of Nursing Service in Medical Care Programs, p. 39
(1968) The nature and magnitude of need and unmet need in medical care, Institute of Planning and Administration of Nursing Service in Medical Care Programs, p. 31
(1968) Presymptomatic detection and early diagnosis, Pitman Medical Publishing Company Limited, p. 18
(1968) Promoting Quality through Evaluating the Process of Patient Care, Medical Care 6(3), p. 181-202, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, url, doi:10.2307/3762934
(1968) The evaluation of medical care programs, Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 44(2), p. 117-24, pubmed central
(1967) Needed... research in home care., Nursing outlook 15(10), p. 42-5, pubmed
(1966) Evaluating the quality of medical care. 1966., The Milbank Memorial Fund quarterly 44(3), p. 691-729, Milbank Memorial Fund, pubmed central, doi:10.1111/j.1468-0009.2005.00397.x
(1966) The quality of care, JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association 260(12), p. 1743-1747
(1966) Evaluación de la calidad de la atención médica, The Milbank Memorial Fund quarterly. Health and society 44, p. 166-203
(1965) The Hospital Administrator and Assessment of the Quality of Medical Care, unknown
(1965) A review of some experiences with prepaid group practice ([Michigan. University] Bureau of Public Health Economics): Avedis Donabedian: Amazon.com: Books, p. 74, url
(1965) Infant mortality and socioeconomic status in a metropolitan community., Public health reports 80(12), p. 1083-94, pubmed central
(1964) Follow-up study of chronically ill patients discharged from hospital, Journal of Chronic Diseases 17(9), p. 847-862, Elsevier, url
(1963) Psychiatric insurance, American Journal of Public Health and the Nations Health 53(5), p. 845-845, American Public Health Association, url, doi:10.2105/AJPH.53.5.845-a
(1963) Quality Control in Medical Care Programs
(1963) An Evaluation of Administrative Controls in Medical-Care Programs, New England Journal of Medicine 269(7), p. 347-354, Massachusetts Medical Society, url, doi:10.1056/NEJM196308152690706
(1961) Organizing Medical Care Programs to Meet Health Needs, The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 337(1), p. 46-56, Sage PublicationsSage CA: Thousand Oaks, CA, url, doi:10.1177/000271626133700107
(1961) Some Factors Influencing Prenatal Care — NEJM, N Engl J Med(265), p. 1-6, url
(1958) Unmet need for medical care., The New England journal of medicine 258(8), p. 369-76, pubmed
(1954) Studies on a recent epidemic of influenza, Lebanese Medical Journal, p. 146-154
(1954) Replicability of a screening test, The Sight-Saving Review 27(3), p. 1-7
Este número monográfico fue coordinado conjuntamente por la Fundación Avedis Donabedian y el consejo editorial de la revista Calidad Asistencial. Contiene algunos de los trabajos más significativos del Profesor Avedis Donabedian traducidos al español y a la vez es un homenaje a su memoria.
