Medicare: A Strategy for Quality Assurance, Volume II: Sources and Methods

By National Research Council

Volume II of Medicare: A Strategy for Quality Assurance provides 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309042380
• ISBN13: 9780309042383
• Release Date: February 1990
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 476 Pages