Medicare : A Strategy for Quality Assurance, Volume I Paperback / softback
by Institute of Medicine, Committee to Design a Strategy for Quality Review and Assurance in Medicare
Edited by Kathleen N. Lohr
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Health care for the elderly American is among our nation's more pressing social issues.
Our society wishes to ensure quality health care for all older people, but there is growing concern about our ability to maintain and improve quality in the face of efforts to contain health care costs. Medicare: A Strategy for Quality Assurance answers the U.S.
Congress' call for the Institute of Medicine to design a strategic plan for assessing and assuring the quality of medical care for the elderly.
This book presents a proposed strategic plan for improving quality assurance in the Medicare program, along with steps and timetables for implementing the plan by the year 2000 and the 10 recommendations for action by Congress. The book explores quality of care?how it is defined, measured, and improved?and reviews different types of quality problems.
Major issues that affect approaches to assessing and assuring quality are examined. Medicare: A Strategy for Quality Assurance will be immediately useful to a wide audience, including policymakers, health administrators, individual providers, specialists in issues of the older American, researchers, educators, and students. Table of ContentsFront MatterContentsPrefaceIntroduction to the Study and the ReportMedicareSummary1.
Health, Health Care, and Quality of Care2. Concepts of Assessing, Assuring, and Improving Quality3.
The Elderly Population4. The Medicare Program5. Hospital Conditions of Participation in Medicare6. Federal Quality Assurance Programs for Medicare7. Quality Problems and the Burdens of Harm8. Settings of Care and Payment System Issues for Quality Assurance9.
Methods of Quality Assessment and Assurance10. Critical Attributes of Quality-of-Care Criteria and Standards11.
Needs for Future Research and Capacity Building12. Recommendations and a Strategy for Quality Review and Assurancein MedicareAcknowledgementsIndex
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:468 pages
- Publisher:National Academies Press
- Publication Date:01/02/1990
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- ISBN:9780309042307
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:468 pages
- Publisher:National Academies Press
- Publication Date:01/02/1990
- Category:
- ISBN:9780309042307
