Hey, Big Spender! Why Does your Quality Lag So Far Behind other Countries?
Burns, J.
Managed Care 27(9): 20-21
2018
ISSN/ISBN: 1062-3388 PMID: 30216154 Document Number: 696789
The United States is the world's biggest spender on health care by far. And what do we get for it? Not as much as we should. Our quality shortcomings are not for lack of knowledge: Stakeholders know what to do to close these gaps. So why aren't they doing it?
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