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Renewed Efforts to Improve the Quality of Health Care
Mike Mitka
JAMA. 1999;281:404.
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Health care quality could emerge as a major issue in 1999.
In the public sector, many expect the federal government to pass some form of patient protection legislation. On the private side, a national forum designated to develop and implement strategies for making available information on quality should be up and running within the year. In addition, a joint effort between the public and private domains will offer clinical practice guidelines on an Internet Web site.
Interviewed after his appearance on a year-end panel on quality held in Washington, DC, and sponsored by the Alliance for Health Reform and the Commonwealth Fund, Kenneth Shine, MD, president of the Institute of Medicine, said that with new speaker of the house J. Dennis Hastert (R, Ill) and Sen Bill Frist (R, Tenn) leading the effort, some form of a Patient's Bill of Rights will pass. But John Eisenberg, MD, administrator . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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