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8. A Response
8. A Response
Pages 54-58
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PATIENT PERSPECTIVES ON HEALTH CARE QUALITY AARP conducts numerous public opinion polls. Some of its findings with regard to health care issues are instructive as we examine options for a new quality assurance strategy for Medicare.
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Ultimately, I think, that leads to a call for some fairly major changes in the way our health care system is structured and financed. In this connection, I should note that an effective, well-coordinated quality assurance program will itself require adequate initial investment and ongoing financial support.
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Moreover, people who are not themselves health care professionals often do not focus on information until a decision must be made. Therefore, information needs to be available to patients at decisionmaking times.
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I would urge the IOM to adhere to the overall philosophy that data disclosure is an important goal, one that will work well only if there is broad dissemination, not only to providers but also to the public and to the policymaking community. The IOM envisions one additional important dimension to the patient and consumer information strategy: quality assurance systems themselves need a healthy dose of informed consumer input and oversight to ensure accountability and credibility.
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Medicare: A Strategy for Quality Assurance. Volumes I and II.
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