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17228554

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-1-18
pubmed:abstractText
The US healthcare system provides evidence that spending more on healthcare does not result in better care, but also offers many lessons and surprises on how the quality and safety of healthcare can be improved. The US Institute of Medicine has clearly articulated what needs to be achieved. A series of US agencies, including the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), other major players, and the Hospital Quality Alliance, routinely collect and report on numerous measures of the quality and safety of inpatient and outpatient healthcare. Most attention to improving care in the UK has focused on vertically integrated, closed healthcare systems, but the US experience provides additional models from the work of Quality Improvement Organizations and of numerous voluntary organisations that sponsor collaborative improvement.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
1470-2118
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
6
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
551-8
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:articleTitle
What can the UK learn from the USA about improving the quality and safety of healthcare?
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Renal Medicine, Southmead Hospital, North Bristol NHS Trust. ctomson@doctors.org.uk
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't