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The Global Pursuit Of Health Care Quality

PROLOGUE: Readers looking for a bright spot in the quality field may be disappointed by what the following papers reveal: The grass isn’t any greener in our neighbors’ health care yards, and in some places it’s even more patchy. The papers in this group address perceptions, measures, responses, and incentives related to health care quality in private fee-for-service and national universal coverage systems. Because so few comparable indicators exist, although many systems are measuring numerous aspects of health care quality, developing meaningful comparisons of quality performance is a challenge. Peter Hussey and a multinational group of authors tackle this in . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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