title: The VE: alive and well on its way to success.
abstract: At midyear, the Voluntary Effort was well on its way to success in achieving its immediate goals. The program is neither a bureaucratic self-policing mechanism nor a political expediency nor a threat to quality of care, but rather a program designed to make better disciplined resource management a responsibility of all parties.
authors.forename: P W
authors.initials: PW
authors.lastname: Earle
mesh_terms: D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D004469:Economics, Hospital; D014481:United States