The State of Quality Improvement and Implementation Research Expert Views: Workshop Summary (2007) / Chapter Skim
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1 Persistent Problems with Quality
1 Persistent Problems with Quality
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O'Neill's perspective of quality in health care considers the value proposition and thus has a broader goal -- to improve the way health and medical care is provided so that the right care can be delivered every time. Practicing health care in this manner could reduce the cost of health and medical care by an estimated 50 percent or $1 trillion while making great improvements in patient outcomes.
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To characterize the urgency of the problems, Dougherty provided national snapshots of issues in quality based on data from AHRQ's National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports, which identified many variations in care. Quality and quality improvement rates varied by delivery setting (e.g., hospitals saw more improvement than ambulatory care centers, nursing homes, and home health care)
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