title: Quality assurance: debate persists on goals, impact, and methods of evaluating care.
abstract: Experts asked whether 'quality assurance' improves care and utilization, cuts costs, changes behavior, needs new formats, meets new uses, or poses conflicting values.
mesh_terms: 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