Horwitz M
Med Staff Couns. 1988 Fall;2(4):31-8.
In the years ahead, defining and measuring the quality of medical care will be the major concern of health care professionals and policymakers in their effort to deliver equitable, cost-effective medical care. What follows is an exposition of the difficulties that surround the concept of "quality" as applied to medical care, and suggestions as to how we might begin to surmount these difficulties.
在未来的岁月里,界定和衡量医疗质量将成为医疗保健专业人员和政策制定者在努力提供公平、具有成本效益的医疗服务时主要关注的问题。以下是对应用于医疗服务的“质量”概念所面临的困难的阐述,以及关于我们如何开始克服这些困难的建议。