title: Getting the FAccts (Foundation for Accountability) straight.
abstract: Purchasers and consumers are taking the lead in monitoring health care quality through the new Foundation for Accountability. The aim is to consolidate, not proliferate, the quality criteria to which hospitals will have to respond in the future.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Wilson
mesh_terms: D000068:Accreditation; D006302:Health Services Research / Q000379:methods; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006761:Hospitals / Q000592:standards*; D007591:Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D018802:Patient-Centered Care / Q000592:standards; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012941:Social Responsibility; D014481:United States