title: An old look at quality assurance.
abstract: The medical-hospital-regulatory complex has perhaps gone too far in the amount of energy and money devoted to data gathering. If the intent of all of this effort is to benefit patient care, it seems fair to ask whether or not the right kind of data is being accumulated. This paper raises the question and points out that the appropriate questions were asked 85 years ago, and remain largely unanswered.
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection / Q000592:standards; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D010820:Physicians; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000639:trends*; D014481:United States