title: The PRO: essential partner in health care quality improvement.
abstract: The health care profession has undergone radical changes and shifts that no one associated with the medical field in New Jersey would have predicted only a decade ago. As cost containment, managed care, mergers, and downsizing dominate New Jersey's health care agenda, the concept of quality-how to define it, how to measure it, and how to improve it-often takes a back seat to these issues.
authors.forename: D I
authors.initials: DI
authors.lastname: Kingsley
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009515:New Jersey; D009938:Organizations; D011787:Quality of Health Care