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Preparing for the 21st Century: Focusing on Quality in a Changing Health Care System (1997) / Chapter Skim
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1. Introduction
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... Others believe that managed care, properly designed and implemented, will provide more rational, elective, and affordable health care. Several key objectives set forth in reports of the Academy complex can help guide the development and implementation of public policies that will ensure the quality of health care provided to Americans.
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... Measuring the Quality of Care is Necessary to Promote Improvements Tested approaches already exist for measuring variations in the quality of some types of care. For more than 25 years, experts have been working to create reliable, valid ways to Nursing Homes and Health Care Quality Many Americans will one day have to enter nursing homes.
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