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During World War II and throughout the post-war period evaluators of medical care shifted attention from standard setting to a review of the care giving
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| Abstract | agent on the duration , progress , and termination of a particular disease . " l Demonstrating the effectiveness of medical care was an ideal gradually followed by others . In the late 1850s Florence Nightingale conducted a number of studies evaluating the efficacy of hospital care of British Army casualties during the Crimean War . Using such indicators as the number of hospital deaths per diagnostic category to document the poor conditions in army hospitals , Nightingale asserted that changes in sanitation could result in substantial decreases in care fatality rates . 2 In the beginning of the 20th century , Dr . Edward M. Codman attempted to institute a follow up system for the purpose of monitoring patient outcomes at Massachusetts General Hospital . The system was designed to examine all patients for post operative progress . Unfortunately , Dr . Codman ' s ideas on evaluation at that time were too advanced for the Massachusetts |
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