title: The quality and cost of medical care in Sweden.
abstract: Swedish examples are used in favor of recent WHO recommendations of quality assurance. Even prior to present efforts at savings, the autopsy frequency in Swedish hospitals dropped 2% per year. Only 31% of Swedish out-patients see the same doctor on subsequent visits, and since few have a personal physician, emergency ward visits increase about 4% per year. Laboratory errors and uncertain diagnoses seem to be of the order of 20%, at least in some conditions.
mesh_terms: D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics* / Q000458:organization & administration; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D013548:Sweden