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Quality of care is making a comeback. After more than two decades of preoccupation with the costs of health care, more attention is being devoted to quality. But much of the attention is coming from unlikely sources — organizations more often associated with efforts to reduce costs. Employers are talking about the quality of health care.^1,2 Managed-care companies and insurers talk about it.^3,4 Data touted as measures of quality are increasingly appearing in newspaper and magazine articles.^5,6,7 The Health Care Financing Administration and the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) have called for a more cooperative effort to . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Skepticism about Quality Improvement

Need for New Approaches to Quality Improvement

Quality Improvement and Better Outcomes for Patients

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Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York, NY 10029-6574

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