Theory and practice for measuring health care quality
- 1 December 1987
- journal article
- Vol. 1987, 49-55
Abstract
As competition, cost control, and new modes of delivery emerge in health care, there is a need to reexamine both the traditional definitions of health care quality and the methods by which it is measured.Keywords
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