Quality of Care Research Symposium
Subtitle: held June 11-12, 1987, Baltimore, Maryland : [proceedings]
Contributors: United States. Health Care Financing Administration. Office of Research and Demonstrations
Series: Working paper series -- no. 87-4.; Working paper series (United States. Health Care Financing Administration. Office of Research and Demonstrations) -- no. 87-4.
Publisher: Department of Health and Human Services, Health Care Financing Administration, Office of Research and Demonstrations
Published: 1987
Place of publication: [Baltimore, Maryland]
Language: eng
Subjects: Medical care; Congresses; Quality control; Evaluation
Notes: "August 1987."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Opening remarks / William L. Roper; title: Summary / by Feather Ann Davis; title: Overivew : major issues in quality of care assessment / by Robert Brook; title: Outcome assessment. For the purpose of determining the health status of the public / by Kenneth G. Manton ; For the purpose of determining the effectiveness of health care interventions / by Christopher Blagg ; For the purpose of epidemiological surveillance / by Philip Caper; title: Mortality data. What are the strengths and limits of mortality as an outcome measure of health care quality? / by Gary Gaumer ; What factors need to be considered in the construction of a measure of severity? / by Douglas P. Wagner ; What is the utility of risk-adjusted mortality as a monitoring tool? / by Mark S. Blumberg; title: Process measures. What is the role of health care process measures : is a balanced approach to management of health care quality feasible? / by William Munier ; The development of explicit criteria for quality of care among elderly persons : the National Medicare Competition Evaluation / by Sheldon Retchin; title: Organizational and structural measures. Organizational determinants of health care quality / by Ann Barry Flood ; Are these measures of quality unless they are predictors of patient outcomes? How can the consumer of health care decide what is best? / by Fred Bodendorf ; Basic elements and issues of a revised assessment process : clinical indicators, severity adjustment, and organizational indicators / by James Prevost; title: Feedback and other issues. Applications of feedback to control medical care quality / by Joseph D. Restuccia ; The Maine experience : what is effective; title: education, a carrot, or a stick? / by Robert Keller ; Alternative quality of care measures / by Duncan Neuhauser; title: Workshop reports.