Cottage Industry to Postindustrial Care — The Revolution in Health Care Delivery
| Autor: | Jed I Weissberg, Stephen J. Swensen, Gregg S. Meyer, Gary S. Kaplan, Eugene C. Nelson, Gordon C Hunt, Mark R. Chassin, Jennifer Daley, David Pryor, Gary R Yates, Donald M. Berwick, Brent C. James |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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Standardization
business.industry media_common.quotation_subject MEDLINE Post-industrial society General Medicine Public relations United States Health care delivery Outcome and Process Assessment Health Care Practice Guidelines as Topic Health care Humans Medicine Performance measurement Quality (business) business Delivery of Health Care Autonomy Quality of Health Care media_common |
| Zdroj: | New England Journal of Medicine. 362:e12 |
| ISSN: | 1533-4406 0028-4793 |
| DOI: | 10.1056/nejmp0911199 |
| Popis: | U.S. health care is broken. Although other industries have transformed themselves using tools such as standardization of value-generating processes, performance measurement, and transparent reporting of quality, the application of these tools to health care is controversial, evoking fears of “cookbook medicine,” loss of professional autonomy, a misinformed focus on the wrong care, or a loss of individual attention and the personal touch in care delivery. We believe that public reporting of performance with regard to appropriately designed clinical standards can overcome these concerns. The application of improvement tools is not only essential to modernizing care delivery but also the key . . . |
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