Improving the Quality of Care for Medicare Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction
Open Access
- 6 May 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Jama-Journal Of The American Medical Association
- Vol. 279 (17), 1351-1357
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.279.17.1351
Abstract
HEALTH CARE quality is a topic of current concern. Quality has been the focus of recent articles in the medical literature1,2 and is being addressed by a presidential commission. These current concerns about quality are partially motivated by speculations about the effect of managed health care on quality and access, and may be related to a realization that quality cannot be assumed but rather must be understood and engineered.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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