title: Quality oversight: a modest proposal.
abstract: This is the first segment of an excerpted statement on health care quality that Joint Commission President Dennis S. O'Leary, MD, presented before the Senate Labor and Human Resource Committee on May 20, 1997. The second segment of this testimony will appear as the President's Column in the March/April 1997 issue of Perspectives. His testimony commented on the proposed Federal Health Care Quality, Consumer Information and Protection Act that would expand the role of the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research to include the review of performance measures, development of risk adjustment methodologies, and creation of data element dictionaries and standardized data collection methodologies.
authors.forename: D S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: O'Leary
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