title: Quality oversight: how much is too much?
abstract: Concern for quality, which has created $1 billion/year quality oversight businesses, has affected health care organizations financially in different degrees. The most costly is the JCAHO accreditation process. Health care organizations have the power to control these businesses and expenditures.
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Kraft
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dunham-Taylor
mesh_terms: D003363:Cost Control; D006801:Humans; D007591:Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations / Q000191:economics; D011366:Professional Review Organizations / Q000191:economics; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000191:economics*; D012456:Salaries and Fringe Benefits