What is quality care? A clinician's view.
The prospect of national health insurance means the establishment of government criteria for reimbursable psychiatric treatment. These cost-control standards are certain to be justified on the basis of quality maintenance as well. Such preestablished criteria would not only fail to insure quality, they would likely undermine it. Steps toward an urgently needed definition of "quality treatment" are considered.
D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D007358:Insurance, Psychiatric; D008499:Medical Records; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D009313:National Health Programs; D010380:Peer Review; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D014481:United States