HSC 572 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: An Essay On Criticism, The Boston Globe, Mammography
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Quality of care is the degree to which health services for individuals and populations increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes and are consistent with current professional knowledge. How care is provided should reflect appropriate use of the most current knowledge about scientific, clinical, technical, interpersonal, manual, cognitive, and organization and management elements of health care. National roundtable on health care quality (chassin and galvin, 1998). Assessment of the state of quality: serious and widespread quality problems exist throughout. These problems occur in small and large communities alike, in all parts of the country, and with approx. equal frequency in managed care and fee for service systems of care. Categorizations of quality defects into three broad categories: underuse, overuse, and misuse: Underuse evidenced by the fact that many scientifically sound practices are not used as often as they should be:
