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How the Pediatric Autopsy Yields Valuable Information in a Vertically Integrated Health Care System
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Context.-Although autopsy rates have declined significantly in recent decades, studies continue to validate the autopsy as an important source of clinically relevant information, a teaching tool, and a quality assurance measure. A recent review of autopsy series showed a decline in the number of serious errors likely to have affected clinical outcome detected at autopsy during the past 46 years, with a current major error rate of 8.4% to 24.4%.
Objective.-Our hypothesis was that the pe...
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Health care evolution: New roles for family and consumer professionals
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1990 FINDS U.S. HEALTH CARE SYSTEM AT CROSSROADS
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Health care options face battery of tests Clinton begins task of turning recommendations into reform
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High technology health care.
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Health care for people's needs; beyond the Clinton plan.
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Managed care: employer's influence on the health care system.
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; Health care consumers and purchasers are demanding accountability for quality, cost, and accessibility of services from the health care industry and its providers. Kerfoot and Helsinger (1994) state, The pressure to treat patients in the least invasive, most appropriate environments has resulted in
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