Ambulatory care: a decade of change in health care delivery.
While the need to realign the continuum and change the delivery system is one of the many factors driving health care reform, it is clear that a major transformation of the delivery system is already under way and that ambulatory care and home care are at the forefront of that movement. This trend is likely to continue regardless of the pace of health reform.
Institute for Health Law, Loyola University School of Law, Chicago, IL.
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