Quality physical therapy: one Chapter's approach.
Quality care is a goal for which physical therapists strive. Federal legislation has provided the impetus to create quality assessment mechanisms. The Utah Chapter of the American Physical Therapy Association has been instrumental in establishing three distinctly different approaches to assure the quality of physical therapy services within the state. This article describes the three approaches.
D006801:Humans; D010380:Peer Review; D026741:Physical Therapy Modalities / Q000592:standards*; D011366:Professional Review Organizations; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012952:Societies; D014589:Utah; D014600:Utilization Review