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Quality Of Care

PROLOGUE

Quality Of Care

PROLOGUE: For several years in the late 1990s health care costs seemed to be under control, and health plans seemed to be less concerned with the notion of competing based on cost. Analysts were hopeful that quality would become a new competitive criterion for plans grappling for market share, and several high-profile reports turned the spotlight squarely on the "quality chasm." Now, with the well-documented return to rising health care costs, the debate on quality is wide open, and we seem to be no further along in being able to isolate what constitutes good quality in medical care, how to . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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