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New Directions in Quality Assurance Proceedings

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Size: 218 pages, 6 x 9

Publication Year:1991

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Molla S. Donaldson, Jo Harris-Wehling, and Kathleen N. Lohr, Editors; Committee to Design a Strategy for Quality Review and Assurance in Medicare, Division of Health Care Services
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Front Matter	i-x
Part 1: Introduction	1-2	(skim)
1. Introduction	3-6	(skim)
2. The Institute of Medicine Report	7-14	(skim)
Part 2: New Directions: More Professionalism, Less Regulation	15-17	(skim)
3. The Committee View	18-21	(skim)
4. A Response	22-26	(skim)
Part 3: New Directions: Organization- and System-Focused Quality Improvement	27-30	(skim)
5. The Committee View	31-36	(skim)
6. A Response	37-44	(skim)
Part 4: New Directions: Improved Decision-Making by Patients and Clinicians	45-47	(skim)
7. The Committee View	48-53	(skim)
8. A Response	54-58	(skim)
Part 5: New Directions: A Patient Outcomes Orientation	59-62	(skim)
9. The Committee View	63-72	(skim)
10. A Response	73-78	(skim)
Part 6: New Directions: Public Accountability and Program Evaluation	79-81	(skim)
11. The Committee View	82-85	(skim)
12. A Response	86-90	(skim)
Part 7: Confronting Special Implementation Issues	91-95	(skim)
13. The Epidemiology of Quality Problems	96-104	(skim)
14. Legal Concerns	105-115	(skim)
15. Translating the Institute of Medicine Report	116-126	(skim)
Part 8: New Directions: The Research, Training, and Capacity Building Agendas	127-129	(skim)
16. Research and Capacity Building: Issues Raised by the Institute of Medicine Report	130-139	(skim)
17. The Research Agenda: An Outside View	140-144	(skim)
18. The Training and Capacity Building Agendas: An Outside View	145-150	(skim)
Part 9: Response to the Institute of Medicine Report Recommendations	151-154	(skim)
19. A Legislator's Response to the Institute of Medicine Report	155-160	(skim)
20. A Legislator's Response to the Institute of Medicine Report	161-166	(skim)
21. A Physician's Response to the Institute of Medicine Report	167-173	(skim)
22. An Administration Response to the Institute of Medicine Report from the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research	174-178	(skim)
23. An Administration Response to the Institute of Medicine Report from the Health Care Financing Administration	179-185	(skim)
24. A Peer Review Organization Response to the Institute of Medicine Report	186-190	(skim)
Part 10: Where Do We Go From Here?	191-193	(skim)
25. Where Do We Go From Here?	194-197	(skim)
26. Where Do We Go From Here?	198-204	(skim)
List of Authors	205-208	(skim)

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This book contains chapters and commentaries by members of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) committee and by outstanding practitioners, researchers, legislators, and policymakers about the IOM's proposals for new directions in quality assurance as specified in Medicare: A Strategy for Quality Assurance, Volumes 1 and 2.
Sections of this new book address ideas about how to move toward increasing professionalism, implementing orgranization and system-focused quality improvement, better decision making by patients and clinicians, patient outcomes orientation, and public accountability and program evaluation. Other sections explore research questions and capacity building in the field of quality assessment and improvement, the epidemiology and quality problems, and legal issues in quality assessment.

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