How Good Is the Quality of Health Care in the United States?
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The article, originally published in the journal in 1989, assesses US medical care quality and provides defined standards and methodologies used in the process. Suggestions are made for quality improvements, which include better utilization of information by both health care professionals and policy makers.
Publication Name: The Milbank Quarterly
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0887-378X
Year: 2005
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Evaluating the Quality of Medical Care
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The article, originally published in the journal in 1966, provides guidelines on assessing medical care quality. These include a definition of quality, what topics to assess and how to approach them, sampling and selection criteria, and indices of medical care.
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Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0887-378X
Year: 2005
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The Economics of Public Health and Medical Care
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The article, originally published in the journal in 1932, offers an in-depth examination of the issues surrounding costs of and access to quality medical care in the US. Topics include the role of the government, medical advances, and distribution of benefits.
Publication Name: The Milbank Quarterly
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0887-378X
Year: 2005
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