Creating Capacity for Improvement in Primary Care, No. 1
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(More information is available at pcmh.ahrq.gov.) In 1996, the Institute of Medicine’s Committee on the Future of Primary Care observed that “primary care is the logical basis of an effective health care system....[P]rimary care is essential to reaching the objectives that constitute value in health care: high-quality care (including achieving desired outcomes), good patient satisfaction, and efficient use of resources” (Donaldson, et al., 1996).
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تاریخ انتشار 2013