Quality of patient care in the Medicare End-Stage Renal Disease Program: The basis and implementation of the 1994-1997 End- Stage Renal Disease Health Care Quality Improvement Program
- 1 May 1996
- journal article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Current Opinion in Nephrology and Hypertension
- Vol. 5 (3) , 224-229
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00041552-199605000-00007
Abstract
Substantial changes have occurred in the quality assurance and improvement programs conducted by the Health Care Financing Administration in the Medicare End-Stage Renal Disease Program. This review is a brief description of these changes and an introduction to the health policy, epidemiology, health services research, clinical nephrology, and statistical process control literature that is the basis for this initiative.Keywords
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