Medicare: A Strategy for Quality Assurance: Sources and Methods

Volume II of Medicare: A Strategy for Quality Assuranceprovides extensive source materials on quality assurance, including results of focus groups with the elderly and practicing physicians, findings from public hearings on quality of care for the elderly, and many exhibits from site visits and the literature on quality measurements and assurance tools. The current Medicare peer review organization program and related hospital accreditation efforts are comprehensively described as background for the recommendations in Volume I of this report. Like the companion volume, this substantial book will be a valuable reference document for all groups concerned with quality of health care and the elderly.Institute of Medicine Staff is the author of 'Medicare: A Strategy for Quality Assurance: Sources and Methods' with ISBN 9780309042383 and ISBN 0309042380.