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The quality imperative : measurement and management of quality in healthcare /
Efforts to reform healthcare systems around the globe are proliferating rapidly. No country is immune from the two fundamental pressures that are driving change: cost and access. Every system is experimenting with measures designed to contain costs while simultaneously trying to determine how best t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London : Singapore ; River Edge, NJ :
Imperial College Press ; Distributed by World Scientific Pub.,
2000.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Efforts to reform healthcare systems around the globe are proliferating rapidly. No country is immune from the two fundamental pressures that are driving change: cost and access. Every system is experimenting with measures designed to contain costs while simultaneously trying to determine how best to resolve the question of who should be eligible for what services under what conditions. In the midst of these experiments, serious concerns about quality are being raised. Are efforts to contain costs leading to practices which have a detrimental impact on quality? What, in fact, is ""quality"" in. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vii, 214 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1860943950 9781860943959 1281866326 9781281866325 |