A Framework for Understanding Health Care Improvement Has Been Proposed

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Multiple Choice

A framework for understanding health care improvement has been proposed by the IOM Committee on Quality of Health Care in America. The aims for health care quality improvement propose that health care systems ensure that care is: (Select all that apply.)

• A) safe.
• B) timely.
• C) efficient.
• D) cost-controlled.
• E) patient-centered.

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Definitions:

Cost-Benefit Analysis

An economic school of jurisprudence in which all costs and benefits of a law are given monetary values. Laws with the highest ratios of benefits to costs are then preferable to those with lower ratios.

Legal Change

An alteration in the existing law or the creation of new laws, potentially affecting various aspects of society and individual rights.

Efficiency

The ability to accomplish a job with a minimum expenditure of time and effort.

Civil Action

A lawsuit in which an individual or entity seeks redress for wrongs done, typically involving private disputes between individuals or organizations.