National Committee for Quality Assurance-Healthcare Employer Data Information Set and Quality Compass; National Cancer Data Base; Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organization-ORYX Initiative and Core Measure Set; Health Care Financing Administration/Physician Review Organization, 6th Scope of Work.
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Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System; Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Survey; the National Cancer Institute Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results Program; Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project; Medical Expenditure Panel Survey; Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey; National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey; National Immunization Survey; National Vital Statistics System; National Health and Nutrition Evaluation Survey; State and Local Area Integrated Telephone Survey.
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RAND Health. RAND QA Tools. www.rand.org.
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Donabedian, A. Explorations in Quality Assessment and Monitoring. Vol. 1. Ann Arbor, Mich: Health Administration Press; 1980.
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Donabedian, A. The Criteria and Standards of Quality. Ann Arbor, Mich: Health Administration Press; 1982.
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Donabedian, A. Evaluating the quality of medical care. Milbank Memorial Fund Q. 1966;44(2):166-206.
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Quality Improvement/Performance Improvement initiatives are entrenched in health care organizations because they empower managers and staff to carry out physically and emotionally demanding health care work more effectively and efficiently while rapidly demonstrating that their efforts "make a difference.'
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Conrad DA, Shortell SM. Integrated health systems: promise and performance. Front Health Serv Manage. 1996;13(1):3-40.
