Les SeplakiColumbia University and Rutgers University, USA
ISBN13: 9781855218413
ISBN: 1855218410
Published: August 1998
Publisher: Routledge
Format: Hardback
Price: Out of print
This text looks at the major issues facing healthcare in the US, and provides an overview of methods advanced to measure healthcare quality. Also covered is the impact of antitrust enforcement in the healthcare sector on healthcare quality.
Contents:
Generic notions of product and quality; definitions and delineations of healthcare quality; measuring healthcare quality - broad issues; measuring healthcare quality - empiricisms; institutional healthcare quality; healthcare quality and the individual provider; cost-quality relationships; monitoring healthcare quality by assurance; monitoring care quality by peer review; the legal environment for healthcare quality - the Healthcare Quality Improvement Act; the legal environment for healthcare quality - competition enforcement restatements and conclusions.
