Public Reporting of Performance

Lessons from the USA

Martin Marshall, Paul G. Shekelle, Robert H. Brook, Sheila Leatherman

ResearchPosted on rand.org 2000Published in: Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, v. 5, no. 1, Editorial, Jan. 2000, p. 1-2

The U.S. experience of public disclosure of information about the performance ot health care providers and health plans is an example of a health policy initiative that has lessons for other countries. Public disclosure should be seen as an evolutionary process and health professionals and their representative bodies should play a part in the process.

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  • Copyright: Royal Society of Medicine Press Ltd
  • Availability: Non-RAND
  • Year: 2000
  • Pages: 2
  • Document Number: EP-200001-12

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