title: Quality management in managed care.
abstract: Managed care creates a corporate environment in which competitiveness demands close attention to quality. Although the health care sector may benefit from solutions derived in other industries, it attaches unique importance to noneconomic, intangible factors. Adequate cost-utility analysis must take such factors into account instead of relying on artificial numerical values.
authors.affiliation: School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
authors.forename: W A
authors.initials: WA
authors.lastname: Reinke
mesh_terms: D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006302:Health Services Research / Q000379:methods*; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000145:classification / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards; D013597:Systems Analysis; D017749:Total Quality Management / Q000379:methods*; D014481:United States