Criteria and the PSRO program.
The Health Standards and Quality Bureau (HSQB) soon will issue two publications containing criteria that Professional Standards Review Organizations (PSROs) may use to assess the care delivered in short-stay hospitals. In this article, the authors anticipate and answer some of the questions that these documents may raise, and they discuss some of the problems that have been associated with the use of PSRO criteria in general.
D006761:Hospitals / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011366:Professional Review Organizations / Q000592:standards*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care