Allies for Quality: Defining Consumer Perspectives on Health Care Quality
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Background The California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF) established the Quality Initiative in 1998 to improve health care quality in California. Since then, the Quality Initiative has been a catalyst in stimulating consumer-driven improvement of health care quality by fostering the development and dissemination of salient and standardized quality-of-care measures; stimulating consumer and purchaser use of comparative quality information; reducing barriers to quality measurement; and engaging consumers, patients, their representative organizations, the health care industry, purchasers, and policymakers in efforts to improve health care quality.
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تاریخ انتشار 2003