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JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1996
A new reality is emerging as cost limits are set for health care: quality of care is becoming a major concern to payers and patients. Increasingly, employers and state and federal governments pay fixed premiums per enrollee to managed care organizations (MCOs), who then pay physicians by mechanisms designed to limit use of service; the question ...
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A new reality is emerging as cost limits are set for health care: quality of care is becoming a major concern to payers and patients. Increasingly, employers and state and federal governments pay fixed premiums per enrollee to managed care organizations (MCOs), who then pay physicians by mechanisms designed to limit use of service; the question ...
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Quality of Health and Health Care
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1995The demise of federal efforts at health care system reform produced a number of losers. The non—Medicaid-eligible poor will continue to struggle for adequate access to appropriate health care, particularly preventive and primary care services. Academic health centers will be adversely affected by the unwillingness of managed care organizations to pay a
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Service Quality in Health Care
JAMA, 1999Although US health care is described as "the world's largest service industry," the quality of service--that is, the characteristics that shape the experience of care beyond technical competence--is rarely discussed in the medical literature. This article illustrates service quality principles by analyzing a routine encounter in health care from a ...
J W, Kenagy, D M, Berwick, M F, Shore
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Health Care Technology and Quality of Care
Quality Assurance and Utilization Review, 1987The increasing costs and complexity of technologic advances in diagnosis and treatment have been ac companied by other important issues. They are often moral or ethical in nature; they include the public's desire and determination to have access to these "high-tech" advances; and the quality and equity with which those advances are apportioned and ...
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The Cost of Quality in Health Care
Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, 1992The potential fiscal impact of improved quality on health care providers and organizations is substantial. In this era of dwindling health care resources, proposals that may limit cost increases while improving quality represent true win-win situations.
D T, Overton, L M, Delene
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"Caring" as Part of Health Care Quality
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1975The subjective aspects of "caring" are an important part of health care quality and should be understood in the context of the illness-recovery process and the physician-patient relationship. "Caring" requires sensitivity on the part of the physician to the role of illness in our society and to the emotional component of illness in every patient.
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Quality Measures in Health Care
Health Marketing Quarterly, 1996This article discusses measurement of quality in health care. The authors attempt to answer the following questions: why measure quality, and what will quality measurement do? The current quality measurement system is described including definitions of the measurable aspects of health care and current measurement tools.
D R, Self, R, Sherer
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Managing the Quality of Health Care
Journal of Health and Human Services Administration, 2002This article reviews quality of health care initiatives beginning with the quality assessment/quality assurance movement of the 1970s. Conceptually, modern quality of care management is rooted in the intellectual wort of Avedis Donabedian who defined quality of care as, a combination of structure, process, and outcome.
James S, Larson, Andreas, Muller
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Pediatrics in Review, 1988
Quality has become a headline issue in American health care. The topic has drawn the attention of professional societies, purchaser groups, regulators, and patient advocacy organizations, and questions about quality are becoming, in one form or another, part of the daily life of the doctor.
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Quality has become a headline issue in American health care. The topic has drawn the attention of professional societies, purchaser groups, regulators, and patient advocacy organizations, and questions about quality are becoming, in one form or another, part of the daily life of the doctor.
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Defining Quality in Health Care
Military Medicine, 1992The difficulty and importance of developing and implementing a definition of quality in health care is discussed. Some current definitions are considered, and a recommended definition of quality health care is presented.
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