Decisions, decisions: Why the quality of medical decisions matters

Health Affairs

Volumn 23, Issue SUPPL., 2004, Pages

  Blumenthal, David ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MANAGED CARE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH SERVICE; STANDARD; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

DECISION MAKING; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HEALTH SERVICES; HUMANS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 8844236269     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.var.124     Document Type: Review

References (10)

1. A. Donabedian, The Definition of Quality and Approaches to Its Assessment (Ann Arbor, Mich.: Health Administration Press, 1980).
2. M. Walton, The Deming Management Method (New York: Perigee, 1986).
3. K. Ishikawa, What is Total Quality Control? The Japanese Way (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1985); W.E. Deming, Out of the Crisis (Cambridge, Mass.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Advanced Engineering Studies, 1986); A.V. Feigenbaum, Total Quality Control, 3d ed. (New York: McGraw Hill, 1983); and J.M. Juran, Juran on Leadership for Quality: An Executive Handbook (New York:. Free Press, 1989).
4. K. Ishikawa, What is Total Quality Control? The Japanese Way (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1985); W.E. Deming, Out of the Crisis (Cambridge, Mass.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Advanced Engineering Studies, 1986); A.V. Feigenbaum, Total Quality Control, 3d ed. (New York: McGraw Hill, 1983); and J.M. Juran, Juran on Leadership for Quality: An Executive Handbook (New York:. Free Press, 1989).
5. K. Ishikawa, What is Total Quality Control? The Japanese Way (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1985); W.E. Deming, Out of the Crisis (Cambridge, Mass.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Advanced Engineering Studies, 1986); A.V. Feigenbaum, Total Quality Control, 3d ed. (New York: McGraw Hill, 1983); and J.M. Juran, Juran on Leadership for Quality: An Executive Handbook (New York:. Free Press, 1989).
6. K. Ishikawa, What is Total Quality Control? The Japanese Way (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1985); W.E. Deming, Out of the Crisis (Cambridge, Mass.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Advanced Engineering Studies, 1986); A.V. Feigenbaum, Total Quality Control, 3d ed. (New York: McGraw Hill, 1983); and J.M. Juran, Juran on Leadership for Quality: An Executive Handbook (New York:. Free Press, 1989).
7. D. Blumenthal and A.C. Scheck, Improving Clinical Practice: Total Quality Management and the Physician (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1995).
8. See, for example, K.R. Sepucha, F.J. Fowler Jr., and A.G. Mulley Jr., "Policy Support for Patient-Centered Care: The Need for Measurable Improvements in Decision Quality," Health Affairs, 7 October 2004, content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/ content/abstract/hlthaff.var.54.
9. Ibid.; and A.M. O'Connor, H.A. Llewellyn-Thomas, and A.B. Flood, "Modifying Unwarranted Variations in Health Care: Shared Decision Making using Patient Decision Aids," Health Affairs, 7 October 2004, content.healthaffairs.org/ cgi/content/abstract/hlthaff.var.63.
10. Ibid.; and A.M. O'Connor, H.A. Llewellyn-Thomas, and A.B. Flood, "Modifying Unwarranted Variations in Health Care: Shared Decision Making using Patient Decision Aids," Health Affairs, 7 October 2004, content.healthaffairs.org/ cgi/content/abstract/hlthaff.var.63.