How Do We Measure Quality?

Health Affairs

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 22-25

  Lohr, Kathleen N ^a  

^a RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EDUCATION, MEDICAL; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; MANAGED CARE PROGRAMS; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0004958660     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.16.3.22     Document Type: Review

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1. Institute of Medicine, Medicare: A Strategy for Quality Assurance, Volume 1, ed. K.N. Lohr (Washington: National Academy Press, 1990).
2. R.H. Brook, C.J. Kamberg, and E.A. McGlynn, "Health System Reform and Quality," Journal of the American Medical Association 276, no. 6 (1996): 476-480.
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5. For thoughtful discussions of the emergence of managed care and accountable health plans, the changing private insurance market, and implications for equitable access to health care, see D.J. Chollet, "Redefining Private Insurance in a Changing Market Structure;" S.M. Shortell and K.E. Hull, "The New Organization of the Health Care Delivery System;" and U.E. Reinhardt, "Rationing Health Care: What It Is, What It Is Not, and Why We Cannot Avoid It," in Strategic Choices for a Changing Health Care System, ed. S.H. Altman and U.E. Reinhardt (Chicago: Health Administration Press, 1996).
6. For thoughtful discussions of the emergence of managed care and accountable health plans, the changing private insurance market, and implications for equitable access to health care, see D.J. Chollet, "Redefining Private Insurance in a Changing Market Structure;" S.M. Shortell and K.E. Hull, "The New Organization of the Health Care Delivery System;" and U.E. Reinhardt, "Rationing Health Care: What It Is, What It Is Not, and Why We Cannot Avoid It," in Strategic Choices for a Changing Health Care System, ed. S.H. Altman and U.E. Reinhardt (Chicago: Health Administration Press, 1996).
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9. J.E. Newhouse and the Insurance Experiment Group, Free for All? Lessons from the RAND Health Insurance Experiment (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993).
10. For current perspectives on this point, see S.S. Wallack et al., "Managed Care for People with Disabilities: Caring for Those with the Greatest Need;" and M. Moon, "The Special Health Care Needs of the Elderly," in Strategic Choices for a Changing Health Care System: and G. Jordahl, "Substance Abuse Treatment Not a Priority for Most Health Plans," Medicine and Health Perspectives (15 July 1996): 1-40.
11. For current perspectives on this point, see S.S. Wallack et al., "Managed Care for People with Disabilities: Caring for Those with the Greatest Need;" and M. Moon, "The Special Health Care Needs of the Elderly," in Strategic Choices for a Changing Health Care System: and G. Jordahl, "Substance Abuse Treatment Not a Priority for Most Health Plans," Medicine and Health Perspectives (15 July 1996): 1-40.
12. For current perspectives on this point, see S.S. Wallack et al., "Managed Care for People with Disabilities: Caring for Those with the Greatest Need;" and M. Moon, "The Special Health Care Needs of the Elderly," in Strategic Choices for a Changing Health Care System: and G. Jordahl, "Substance Abuse Treatment Not a Priority for Most Health Plans," Medicine and Health Perspectives (15 July 1996): 1-40.
13. A. Donabedian, "Evaluating the Quality of Medical Care," Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly (July 1966, Part 2): 166-203.