Moving forward on quality of care: role of decision modeling.
Quality care reemerges as an issue amid the primary concern for cost. Primary problems revolve around whether treatments are efficacious and appropriate for the individual patient and whether the practice of medicine is being performed competently. A model is suggested for how these questions might be addressed.
Neuhauser
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Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University Medical School, Cleveland, Ohio 44106.
Napier
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D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003661:Decision Support Techniques; D006176:Gynecology; D006302:Health Services Research; D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009774:Obstetrics; D011243:Preferred Provider Organizations; D011446:Prospective Studies; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D011897:Random Allocation; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D014481:United States