Managed care: quality management differentiates the product
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Abstract:
Comprehensive quality management is a goal that requires major corporate commitment to implement and maintain. The best results in a quality management program will be achieved when all components are tied together in a comprehensive program. To do that, a significant investment in personnel and equipment is required. As the benefits of having a program such as the one as described above become more widely known and accepted, more and more managed care insurers and providers will adopt these or similar standards. The question, "How do you know that patients are getting high-quality and sufficient care?" cannot be answered today by insurers who do not have such a program.
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