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POLICY FORUM: Quality of Care and Performance Improvement
Special Guest Editors' Introduction: Quality of Care and Performance Improvement: An Important New Emphasis Whose Time Has Come
Lawrence M. Cutchin, MD and Clyde L. Brooks, Jr., MD
Issue Brief: Quality of Care and Health System Performance: Where Are We Now?
Where Should We Be Going? Who Can Take Charge and Lead Us There?
Meera A. Kelley, MD, and Ross J. Simpson, Jr., MD, PhD, MPH
Issue Brief: The Price of Quality: Incorporating High-Yield Strategies into the Daily Reality of Medical Practice
Sharon K. Hull, MD, Leila C. Kahwati, MD, MPH, Elizabeth P. Kanof, MD, and Jennifer P. Proko, RN,
CHCQM
Data and Information Requirements for Healthcare Performance Monitoring and
Improvement
Robert R. Weiser and Christopher Mansfield, PhD
Evidence-Based Medicine: Ready For Prime Time?
Charles F. Willson, MD, and G. Hadley Callaway, MD
Disease Management Approaches to Quality Improvement
John R. Mangum, MD, and Conrad L. Flick, MD
Educating a New Generation of Healthcare Professionals with a Lifelong Commitment to Quality of Care
Stephen E. Willis, MD, Thomas J. Pulliam, MD, and Thomas J. Bacon, DrPH
Making Healthcare 'Patient-Centered': The Centerpiece of Quality Improvement
L. Allen Dobson, Jr., MD, FAAFP, and Michelle F. Jones, MD
Quality of Care and Performance Improvement: Two Ideas that Go Hand-in Hand
Noel G. McDevitt, MD, William A. Walker, MD, FACS, FASCRS, and Gordon H. DeFriese, PhD
SPECIAL ARTICLE
Remembering Cecil
Donald L. Madison, MD
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