Measuring quality of care.
In the years ahead, defining and measuring the quality of medical care will be the major concern of health care professionals and policymakers in their effort to deliver equitable, cost-effective medical care. What follows is an exposition of the difficulties that surround the concept of "quality" as applied to medical care, and suggestions as to how we might begin to surmount these difficulties.
D003625:Data Collection; D006761:Hospitals / Q000592:standards*; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D011366:Professional Review Organizations; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D012107:Research Design; D014481:United States