Quality assurance: debate persists on goals, impact, and methods of evaluating care.
Experts asked whether 'quality assurance' improves care and utilization, cuts costs, changes behavior, needs new formats, meets new uses, or poses conflicting values.
D003211:Concurrent Review / Q000379:methods; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006040:Goals; D006801:Humans; D007591:Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations; D008485:Medical Audit / Q000379:methods*; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital / Q000592:standards; D011366:Professional Review Organizations; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000191:economics; D014481:United States