Measuring Hospital Quality: What Physicians Do? How Patients Fare? Or Both?

Just two decades ago, most US citizens presumed they received high-quality care, and neither patients nor physicians were much concerned with quality measurement. The landscape has changed. Lapses in quality of care provided by the US health care system--the most expensive health care system in the...

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Published inJAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association Vol. 296; no. 1; pp. 95 - 97
Main Author Jha, Ashish K
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States American Medical Association 05.07.2006
Subjects
Clinical outcomes
Hospital Mortality
Hospitals
Hospitals - standards
Humans
Measurement techniques
Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care)
Physicians
Quality Indicators, Health Care
Quality of care
Risk Assessment
United States
United States
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Summary:Just two decades ago, most US citizens presumed they received high-quality care, and neither patients nor physicians were much concerned with quality measurement. The landscape has changed. Lapses in quality of care provided by the US health care system--the most expensive health care system in the world--are now widely recognized.
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ISSN:0098-7484
1538-3598
DOI:10.1001/jama.296.1.95