M. Quality/Satisfaction

• Medical errors
• Patient safety
• Quality measurement
  • Structure
  • Process
  • Outcomes
• Quality improvement
  • Health plan quality
  • Hospital quality
  • Physician quality
  • Nursing home quality
    

Analysis

• Chapter 3 – Quality of Care (Alliance for Health Reform)
• Quality of Care (Health Affairs topic page)
• The Urgent Need to Improve Health Care Quality
  Report drafted by the Institute of Medicine, National Roundtable on Health Care Quality concluded that the quality of care should be the focus to improve the system.
• Evaluating Quality on the Net
• Low-risk elderly patients may be safely discharged early from the hospital following bypass surgery (AHCPR: 1/98)
• Occupational therapy may reduce health declines in older adults (AHCPR: 1/98)
• Study Finds Shortcomings in Cancer Treatment

News

• Kaiser Health News. Quality.