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Quality of Health Care: What Is It, Why Is It Important, and How Can It Be Improved in California's Workers' Compensation Programs?
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Teleki, Stephanie S. Damberg, Cheryl L. Reville, Robert T. |
| Copyright Year | 2003 |
| Abstract | The Institute of Medicine (IOM) has defined quality of health care as “the degree to which health services for individuals and populations increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes and are consistent with current professional knowledge” 1. A primary objective of the United States (U.S.) health care system is to provide the combination of health services that optimizes the population's health; efforts to improve the quality of health services are key to reaching this goal 2. Although there is a general assumption by most Americans that the quality of health care provided in the U.S. is very high, it is now well-documented that this is often not the case 1. The recent failure to verify the blood type of a transplant patient at Duke Medical Center serves as a dramatic example that, even at the nation's premier medical centers, the quality of care may be less than optimal 3. Such quality-related deficiencies are especially alarming at a time when annual, national spending on health care has exceeded $1 trillion (approximately 14% of the Gross Domestic Product or GDP) and is expected to increase dramatically over the next decade 4. In short, the quality of health care in the U.S. is not acceptable from a clinical standpoint and is not commensurate with the amount spent. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.dir.ca.gov/chswc/CAResearchColloquium/P5/StephanieTeleki.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.docum-enter.com/get/DlFafwpWOVEdg0u7c8NXzBg_9jpRjT5vqXYRXmMiYK8,/Quality-of-Health-Care-What-Is-It-Why-Is-It.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
