title: Quality leaders differ on accountability measures.
abstract: Leaders of the National Committee for Quality Assurance, Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and the Foundation for Accountability agree that performance and outcomes measures need to be standardized-but they disagree on how.
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authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: McGuire
mesh_terms: D006279:Health Maintenance Organizations / Q000592:standards*; D007591:Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations; D009938:Organizations; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000592:standards; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States