Lessons from industry.

R W Hungate

PubMed · 10312885

Lessons from industry.

Abstract

Rapidly emerging in public debate as the key to the future of the health care industry is quality. One can hardly pick up a health care magazine or journal or listen to a discussion among health care professionals without quality becoming a concern. Despite virtually universal agreement on the importance of the generic term and secondary agreement on the importance of being able to measure it, discussion bogs down in either of two ways. It may become overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of the task of describing all the elements of health care quality, or the different viewpoints of individuals will yield quite variable understandings of what the term "quality of health care" means. To make substantial progress in improving health care quality, we will need to come to an agreement on terms.

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