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What is Quality in Medicine? – It Isn’t Easy!
The definition of Quality in Medicine is in the eye of the beholder. There are several good paradigms, but they all look at different components of the overall concept. Continue reading
What is Quality? It Depends on Who Does The Measurement
There are more than a dozen sets of publicaly reported quality metrics … with between 8 & 80 individual components to each set. It is small wonder that they don’t agree. Continue reading
Providers, Patient Care Delivery and Policy: Hospitalist story
There are often perverse incentives in health care. These incentives can, at times, create competing drives where providers are encouraged to do things that directly increase the costs of care. Consider the reaction to the mandate to cut down hours … Continue reading
Posted in General Interest, Operational effectiveness, Policy, Quality
Tagged Hospitalist, Public Policy, quality
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