The Emerging Imperative for Health Care Quality Improvement

By Kizer, Kenneth W.

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Title:	The Emerging Imperative for Health Care Quality Improvement
Author:	Kizer, Kenneth W.
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Language:	English
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Collections:	Economics Publications Collection, Federal Trade Commission
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Publisher:	Government Printing Office


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Abstract: There are widespread and growing concerns about the variable and too often inadequate quality of health care in the United States. As a result, health care quality is being questioned and subjected to scrutiny as never before. Awareness of the quality deficits, combined with rising health care expenditures and changing attitudes of payers and consumers, has given rise to a nascent but growing quality improvement movement. Multiple barriers must be surmounted by this movement, but substantive work is under way on all fronts. Emergency medicine will definitely be affected by the quality improvement movement and should quickly move forward...