title: The birth of InterQual: evidence-based decision support criteria that helped change healthcare.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  InterQual evidence-based clinical decision support criteria are used by thousands of organizations in healthcare. What industry trends led to their creation, and what accounts for their longevity and widespread acceptance? PRIMARY PRACTICE SETTINGS(S): Hospitals, health systems, and managed care organizations.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Although the healthcare puzzle sometimes seems too complicated for anyone to solve, passionate people with good ideas have been able to effect substantive and relatively rapid change throughout healthcare history.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Development and Strategy, Clinical Content for McKesson Health Solutions, Newton, MA 02466, USA. MHS@mckesson.com
authors.forename: A Jacqueline
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Mitus
mesh_terms: D003661:Decision Support Techniques; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine / Q000266:history / Q000379:methods*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000266:history / Q000379:methods*; D014481:United States