The Quality of Care at Urgent Care Centers
ResearchPosted on rand.org 2009Published in: Journal of urgent care medicine, v. 3, no. 5, Feb. 2, 2009, p. 27-30
ResearchPosted on rand.org 2009Published in: Journal of urgent care medicine, v. 3, no. 5, Feb. 2, 2009, p. 27-30
Developing methods to assess the quality of healthcare in any clinical area is a complicated affair. Many individuals have devoted large parts of their careers to quality measurement, and several national organizations- such as The Joint Commission and the National Quality Forum-exist solely for the purposes of measuring and ensuring the quality of healthcare delivered to patients in the U.S.
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