The best asthma care. A case problem in continuous quality improvement.
In the future, health care delivery systems may need to respond to requests from payers to demonstrate the quality of care they provide for types of patients or diseases. Here, asthma is used as an example of what such a response might look like in the context of continuous quality improvement.
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Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106-4945.
Headrick
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Miller
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D001249:Asthma / Q000628:therapy*; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*