Top-down and bottom-up approaches to health care quality: The impacts of regulation and report cards

Annual Review of Public Health

Volumn 35, Issue , 2014, Pages 477-497

  Mukamel, Dana B ^a   Haeder, Simon F ^b   Weimer, David L ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Political Science ^*  (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Policy; Quality of care; Regulation; Report cards

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTABLE CARE ORGANIZATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE REGULATION; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; MEDICAID; NURSING HOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORT CARD; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HOME FOR THE AGED; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; POLICY; PROCEDURES; QUALITY CONTROL;

BENCHMARKING; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH FACILITY ADMINISTRATION; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; MEDICAID; NURSING HOMES; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; POLICY; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84897067747     PISSN: 01637525     EISSN: 15452093     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-publhealth-082313-115826     Document Type: Conference Paper

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