title: The PPO accreditation contest. Competition among the big guns may hamper universal standards.
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authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lovern
mesh_terms: D000068:Accreditation / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007591:Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations; D011243:Preferred Provider Organizations / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014481:United States