title: Quality and disease management.
abstract: Does having a comprehensive list of quality targets as part of the contract incentivize vendors to do the right thing? Not necessarily. However, if a vendor needs incentives to do the right thing in the quality department, one may have picked the wrong vendor and/or negotiated the wrong contract. Conversely, a vendor willing to be measured by the most objective measures possible is a vendor with enough confidence in its own outcomes to be considered an excellent choice as a partner.
authors.affiliation: Disease Management Purchasing Consortium, Wellesley, Massachusetts 02481, USA. DiseasMgmt@aol.com
authors.forename: Al
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lewis
mesh_terms: D003164:Competitive Bidding; D003284:Contract Services / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017046:Cost Savings; D019468:Disease Management; D006801:Humans; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D014481:United States