Quality of patient care in the Medicare End-Stage Renal Disease Program: the basis and implementation of the 1994-1997 End-Stage Renal Disease Health Care Quality Improvement Program.
Substantial changes have occurred in the quality assurance and improvement programs conducted by the Health Care Financing Administration in the Medicare End-Stage Renal Disease Program. This review is a brief description of these changes and an introduction to the health policy, epidemiology, health services research, clinical nephrology, and statistical process control literature that is the basis for this initiative.
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Center for Clinical Evaluation Sciences, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy*; D008490:Medical Informatics; D006278:Medicare; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D006435:Renal Dialysis; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014481:United States