Risk Management,Quality Assurance,and Health Care Policy Dilemmas

Abstract

Editor's Note: The following article, coauthored by the QAUR Case Study Editor, and Reginald F. Wells, Ph.D. (2.) is presented to demonstrate the utility of risk management when, as a component of a comprehensive QA initiative, it is applied to critical policy dilemmas facing health care providers today. The practical application of RM in formulating an AIDS policy for a public MRDD service agency is outlined as a strategic example-the "case study" if you will. Paper was presented by the authors at the 112th Annual Meeting of the AAMR, Washington Hilton Hotel, Washington, D. C.

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