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Quality of health care for the disadvantaged

Journal of Community Health, 1975
Literature review points out that: (a) differentials in health status between the disadvantaged and the nondisadvantaged persist, often to a large degree; (b) differentials in the overall amount of care received are less striking now than heretofore, but standardization by level of need demonstrates measurable discrepancies in health services provided ...
R H, Brook, K N, Williams
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Measurement of quality in health care

Neurology, 1998
Despite the lack of a generally accepted definition of quality health care, numerous tools purporting to measure quality are being developed and disseminated, similar to the example described by Hinchey et al. in this issue.1 The interest in quality assessment is being driven by several forces.
D J, Lanska, A J, Hartz
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Reflections on Quality Health Care

Nursing Administration Quarterly, 2003
The author, a JCAHO Codman Award recipient, reflects on her professional career in the area of health care quality and describes how nurses have been leaders in the study and improvement of health care quality. Nursing's contributions to the development of quality of care measures, guidelines, and standardized languages are described and current and ...
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Measuring the Quality of Health Care

New England Journal of Medicine, 1971
IT is no news that the quality of health care in the United States is often called "inadequate," with the descriptors ranging (±2 S.D.) from "catastrophic" to "spotty." Although a host of distressf...
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Quality of health care. Part 2: Measuring quality of care

Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, 1997
Until recently, we relied primarily on professional judgment to ensure that patients received high-quality medical care.
R H, Brook, E A, McGlynn, P D, Cleary
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Specifying Quality in Health Care

Journal of Management in Medicine, 1994
Quality should be a central issue in the commissioning and provision of health care. This requires a systematic approach to defining and monitoring quality. Such an approach should address: quality characteristics such as efficiency, accessibility, effectiveness (which may conflict with each other); the several levels at which quality may be specified,
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Managed Care, Health Care Quality, and Regulation

The Journal of Legal Studies, 2001
Abstract The growth of managed care has prompted numerous questions about its effect on the quality of health care. This paper reviews evidence on the effects of managed care on quality. Most comparisons of care for patients in different plans within similar markets suggest that there is little systematic difference in quality between HMOs and other ...
Baker, Laurence C., McClellan, Mark B.
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Small and big quality in health care

International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, 2015
Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to clarify healthcare quality’s ontological and epistemological foundations; and examine how these lead to different measurements and technologies.Design/methodology/approach– Conceptual analysis.Findings– Small quality denotes conformance toex anterequirements.
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[Quality of and quality assurance in health care preventive health care].

Medicinski arhiv, 2003
Quality in healthcare and healthcare protection represents one from the most complex characteristics of the state and functioning of healthcare system. In fact, the quality represents the responsibility of all the components/participants of the system: inhabitants, actual patients, the potentional patients, decisions makers, purchasors and the ...
Izet, Masić, Dragana, Niksić
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Health care quality

Academic Medicine, 1998
The many audiences for information about the quality of health care have different and sometimes conflicting interests and priorities. This is reflected in the diversity of current efforts to use health care data to identify, measure, and demonstrate quality.
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