Must we choose between quality and cost containment?
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Must we choose between quality and cost containment?
Accepted for publication 10 September 1996 Introduction For the past few years, the United States has been engaged in a public policy debate about how to reform the healthcare system to assure access to care while cost containment. Underlying the deliberations is a concern that quality and cost containment are a trade off that is, that efforts to contain costs inevitably result in lower quality...
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عنوان ژورنال: Quality and Safety in Health Care
سال: 1996
ISSN: 1475-3898,1475-3901
DOI: 10.1136/qshc.5.4.223