Value Based Health Care: Linking Finance and Quality

INDEX

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Accountability

Acute myocardial infarction (AMI)

Ad Hoc Committee on Health Literacy for the

Council on Scientific Affairs (AMA)

Admission risk points

Adverse events: communication failure examples of;

definition of; internal responses to;

medication error; poor communication

as primary cause of; quality management’s

role in controlling. See also

Malpractice; Patient safety; Sentinel events

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

(AHRQ)

AHRQ National Healthcare Disparties Report

Alcoholism-suicide comorbidity

Ambulatory care: for children; prevention

role in; promoting prevention in setting of; tables of measures on

American Board of Medical Specialties

Maintenance of Certification ...