An agency for change: almost a goner two years ago, AHCPR is alive and well today - and still pushing for clinical protocols

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The US Agency for Health Care Policy and Research has a budget of $150 million. Agency administrator John Eisenberg cannot understand why health services research is not financed more readily. The public does not understand the relationship between health care research and the care that they receive. It is important in the late 1990s, with limited funds for medical care, to determine which medical procedures work and which do not.

Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences, Research and Testing Services, Medical Research, Management, Powers and duties, United States. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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Psst...can we talk?; critics say hospital workers' QT interviews with surveyors are more sorry than safe

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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations' surveying policy states that hospital workers' opinions will remain private, but critics feel that the association cannot guarantee anonymity. Plus, critics contend, the surveyors do not use quality of care information they get from interviews appropriately. The commission should find new ways for employees to express their views about hospital quality.

Hospitals, Research, Surveys, Medical personnel, Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations

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