title: Clinical appropriateness: the only real measure of quality.
authors.affiliation: InterQual, Inc., Marlborough, MA, USA.
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Jacobs
mesh_terms: D019985:Benchmarking; D003625:Data Collection; D020000:Decision Support Systems, Clinical; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000191:economics; D017064:Process Assessment, Health Care / Q000592:standards; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D014481:United States