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Overview of the Study to Design a
Strategy for Quality Review and
Assurance in Medicare
Kathleen N. Lohr
The United States has a high level of quality in much of its health care.
As individuals, people (especially the elderly) are usually satisfied with
their own medical care and providers. Despite these positive impressions of
the overall quality of care in the nation, a large literature documents areas
of deficiencies in all parts of the health sector. Some of these problems
relate to the overuse of unnecessary and inappropriate services, some to
underuse of needed services, and some to poor skills or judgment in the
delivery of appropriate services.
Furthermore, recurring crises involving malpractice litigation reflect an
undercurrent of quality problems exacerbated by a deteriorating patient-
physician relationship. Great variations in rates of use of services in the
population are not satisfactorily explained by variations in health needs or
resources. Moreover, the growth of for-profit enterprises and of commer-
cialism is seen as leading to possible conflict between physicians and pa-
tients. Finally, and perhaps most germane, continuing increases in health
expenditures and in the rate at which they rise have led to momentous
changes in the health care environment, and these changes have conflicting
implications for quality of care and quality assurance.
Given this environment, the Congress of the United States had consider-
able concerns about the quality of care for the elderly. To address these
concerns, they commissioned a study through the Omnibus Budget Recon-
ciliation Act of 1986 (OBRA 1986) to "design a strategy for quality review
and assurance in Medicare." Section 9313 of OBRA 1986 called for the
Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to
solicit a proposal from the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to conduct
the study, and it specified eight legislative charges. These were, "among
other items," to:
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(A) identify the appropriate considerations which should be used in defin-
ing 'quality of care';
(B) evaluate the relative roles of structure, process, arid outcome standards
in assuring quality of care;
(C) develop prototype criteria and standards for defining and measuring
quality of care;
(D) evaluate the adequacy and focus of the current methods for measuring,
reviewing, and assuring quality of care;
(E) evaluate the current research on methodologies for measuring quality
of care, and suggest areas of research needed for further progress;
(F) evaluate the adequacy and range of methods available to correct or
prevent identified problems with quality of care;
(G) review mechanisms available for promoting, coordinating, and super-
vising at the national level quality review and assurance activities;
(H) develop general criteria which may be used in establishing priorities in
the allocation of funds and personnel in reviewing and assuring quality of
Studies undertaken by NAS and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) are
conducted by expert committees. These committees comprise individuals
selected for their expertise who can provide information and insights from
all disciplines and social sectors that are important to the topic of the study.
The IOM committee for this study, which was established in the fall of
1987, consisted of 17 individuals and included experts in medicine, nursing,
home health and social services, law, economics, epidemiology and statis-
tics, decision analysis, and quality assessment and assurance. Committee
members also represented major consumer, purchaser, and business inter-
ests. The committee had a broad representation by age, sex, and geographic
The OBRA 1986 legislation specified that the IOM should consult with
specific organizations and with representatives of major groups that have
interests in this issue. To this end, a Technical Advisory Panel (TAP) was
appointed early in the study, with representatives from the following groups:
American Health Care Association; American Hospital Association; Ameri-
can Medical Association; American Medical Review Research Center;
American Nurses Association; Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association;
Group Health Association of America; Health Insurance Association of
America; Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations;
National Association for Home Care; National Association of Quality As-
surance Professionals; National Governors Association; National Medical
Association; and Older Women's League.
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Phases of the Study
The study was conducted in several phases. A planning phase lasted
from summer 1987 through January 1988. During this time, a preliminary
and then a final proposal were prepared for the Health Care Financing
Administration (HCPA), the study committee was appointed, and IOM staff
were hired. The major part of the data collection (described below) was
performed between February 1988 and July 1989. Preparation of the IOM
committee report (both Volume I and Volume II) was concentrated in the
period from August 1989 through February 1990. The report was published
and distributed and other dissemination activities (including a conference)
were conducted between February and the end of the study in mid-1990.
The work was financed by two grants from the Health Care Financing
Administration (HCFA), one for He planning phase and one for the remain-
der of the study.
Data Collection and Other Study Activities
Main Study Tasks
The committee and IOM staff carried out several major activities during
this study; they fall into the general categories of convening meetings, gath-
enng background information, consulting broadly with groups across the
country, and acquiring or producing technical documents. First, the com-
mittee met nine times for two-to-three-day meetings; the TAP was inde-
pendently convened twice. Second, a total of 10 background papers were
commissioned; Table 1.1 shows the authors and titles of the papers.
Several papers and reports were produced by IOM staff or consultants on
various specific aspects of the study. These constitute the main portion of
this volume of the report.
A complex public hearing process was started in the early months of the
study and continued for about six months (see Chapter 2~. It featured two
formal public hearings~ne in San Francisco and one in Washington, D.C.
at which a total of 42 groups gave oral testimony before the entire commit-
tee. Written testimony was received from nearly 140 groups (of nearly 575
contacted), including those that were represented in person.
The study committee placed considerable importance on developing a
definition of `'quality of care" that would guide their thinking about a Medi-
care quality assurance program. Testimony from the public hearings, among
other sources, provided many ideas and proposals for such a definition.
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TABLE 1.1 Commissioned Papers
Title of Paper
Medicare Quality Assurance Mechanisms
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PROP Review of Medicare Heals Maintenance
Organ~zanons and Competitive Medical Plans
Quality of Health Care for the Older People
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Strengths and Weaknesses of Health Insurance
Data Systems for Assessing Quality
Reflections on the Effectiveness of
Quality Assurance
Quality Assurance: Ethical Considerations
Issues Related to Quality Review and
Assurance in Home Heals Care
Study on International Aspects of
Quality Assurance
Considerations in Defining Quality in Health Care
Quality of Care for Older People in America
Andrew Heath Smith
Maxwell Mehlman
Margaret O'Kane
Norma Lang
Janet Kraegel
Leslie L. Roos
Noralou Roos
Elliot S. Fisher
Thomas A. Bubolz
Avedis Donabedian
Gail Povar
Catherine Hawes
Robert L. Kane
Evert Reerink
R. Heather Palmer
Miriam E. Adams
Laurence Z. Rubenstein
Lisa V. Rubenstein
Karen Josephson
aPRO, Peer Review Organization.
Chapter 5 presents the analysis and interpretation of that material and the
committee's final definition of quality of care.
Early in the study two sets of focus groups were conducted. Eight focus
groups were held among elderly Medicare beneficiaries in four cities (Mi-
ami, New York City, Minneapolis, and San Francisco), and an additional
eight groups were done among practicing physicians in five cities (Philadel-
phia, Chicago, New Orleans, Albuquerque, and Los Angeles). Chapter 3
discusses the issues raised through the focus groups.
The most extensive study task was a series of nine major site visits and
several smaller site visits to states and cities across the country; these are
described in Chapter 4. In the major site visits two-to-three-day trips to
the states of California, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, New York (two
separate site visits), Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, and Washington-com-
mittee members and staff visited hospitals and hospital associations, home
health agencies, health maintenance organizations (HMOs), state depart-
ments of health, and other organizations. In addition, meetings were organ
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ized with practicing physicians, hospital administrators, representatives of
aging, consumer, and community groups, and with other individuals. A
major effort was made to visit a representative set of Medicare Peer Review
Organizations (PROs). The shorter site visits were to specific organizations
(e.g., multispecialty clinics or HMOs) that appeared to offer particular in-
sights into approaches for quality assurance. Altogether, site visitors spoke
with over 650 individuals.
Much of the value of the site visits was in learning about and being able
to document the wide variety of quality assessment and quality assurance
activities being conducted throughout the country. To give a sense of the
richness of the efforts beyond the Medicare program, Chapter 6 presents an
extensive sampler of methods, instruments, and tools drawn from the site
visits, the published literature, and other sources.
Study staff and the committee also carried out several other activities. To
address the congressional charge of developing prototypical criteria and
standards for defining and measuring quality of care, a special expert panel
was convened late in the study to develop recommendations concerning the
attributes and standards by which quality-of-care criteria and appropriate-
ness or practice guidelines might be evaluated. This was reported in Chap-
ter 10 of Volume I. Consultants were used to advise on different study
topics, such as legal and regulatory issues. We also acquired data on staff-
ing and costs of quality assurance programs from a survey that was being
conducted at the same time by a large multihospital system. Additionally,
at several of its meetings, the committee heard from a range of experts on
quality assurance and related topics. Finally, the committee and staff con-
sulted with staff at HCFA and at several federal and congressional agencies
with interests in the Medicare quality assurance program.
Hospital Conditions of Participation
HCFA requested the IOM to conduct a second study, which had been
mandated in Section 9305 of OBRA 1986, that would examine whether
standards used for hospitals to meet the Conditions of Participation for
Medicare could assure the quality of hospital care. The IOM folded this
study into the larger effort, and that review is reported mainly in Chapter 7
of this volume.
Medicare Peer Review Organizations
The existing program in Medicare for quality assurance is the PRO pro-
gram. It, together with predecessor programs (Experimental Medical Care
Review Organizations and Professional Standards Review Organizations),
was described and discussed in Chapter 6 of Volume I. Much important
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information about the PRO program, some of which relates directly to evalu-
ative comments in Volume I, could not be retained in that chapter because
of space considerations. Thus, a more complete and detailed history and
description of the program and its many complex activities are given in
Chapter ~ of this volume.
This volume of source materials is intended to provide documentation of
the diverse activities carried out over the two years of this project. The
complexities of quality assessment and quality assurance in conceptuali-
zation and in practical application are such that much of the study
committee's final report (Volume I) was oriented to those issues. This
volume, therefore, provides much of the "raw material" that underlay the
committee's deliberations, findings, conclusions, and recommendations, with
the intent that it be a useful reference book well beyond the study's conclu-


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Star Wars: The Old Republic was the title everyone was lining up to see and BioWare delivered with a fully playable flashpoint group instance. G4 was there to get their hands on the keyboard and test drive the Republic tank, healer, and two dps classes that were available. Leah Jackson felt the ranged damage and healer classes at her command were very similar in playstyle to World of Warcraft and the gameplay was solid, but uninspired. Nikole Zivalich took on the role of a gun-wielding tank and found it a good fit for someone with first or third person shoot experience. Eric Eckstein jumped in with a lightsaber-wielding dps class and was pleasantly surprised that the gameplay was easy to understand. He was especially impressed with the storytelling that kicked off the mission. SWTOR is in closed friends and family beta with no announced launch date other than "not April."
Guild Wars 2 followed up its GDC unveiling of the thief class with a Q&A panel delving deeper into this upcoming MMOs innovative features. The devs talked about how, similar to RIFT, rewards for participating in dynamic world events will be scaled to the player's involvement. Dungeons will have a story mode so the entire party experiences the same content and a repeatable mode that will allow you to explore different parts of the instance. PvP is not only the usual arenas, battlegrounds, and one-on-one dueling, but server vs. server in massive battles for bragging rights. Finally, they talked about the sidekick system that allows you to either temporarily drop your level to match a friend's lower level or, alternately, bump up your buddies level to your own. If ArenaNet can pull that off, it will solve a long-running problem with MMOs: friends barred from playing together due to level differences. Guild Wars 2 is still in development with no announced launch date.
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Lord of the Rings Online previewed their latest major content update, Vol III, Book 3 Echoes of the Dead. This update continues the story of Middle-earth's Rangers preparing the way for the Fellowship from Mirkwood on through Rohan. Four new instances and a new raid are introduced in Echoes, centered around Gaunt-lords striking out against the Free Peoples. Geared towards 3-person, 6-person, and 12-person teams, these instances take you back to familiar places such as the Shire, Forochell, and the Trollshaws. LotRO is currently free-to-play and the next announced expansion, Rise of Isengard, is currently slated for Fall.
Firefall is a team-based, action-shooter MMOFPS. Think Team Fortress 2 Online. At PAX East, the G4 squad played through the latest demo by choosing from a Recon, Assualt, or Medic class and jumping into a map with an objective to shoot it out. Gameplay is fast and furious, and there is also a single-player mode for leveling up as well as rankings for team play. Firefall is set to launch by the end of this year.
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Faxion is a new PvP-centric MMO that just went into open beta. Choose you class and your allegiance to Heaven or Hell then duke it out with other online players in Limbo. Zones are designed around the theme of the Seven Seadly Sins, and when one side takes over a zone, they get access to the vendors and other features as long as they can hold it. Players can skill up while offline similar to EVE Online and can even use a mobile app to manage the skill queue. The game uses the free-to-play model to lure players into this timeless struggle.
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"Why is Zoidberg the only one still alone?"
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Their drummer used to be in Kids Like Us. True story, and wise move.
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anyone else working two jobs right now?? fuck it sux, but I need the damn money.
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This video was 8 kinds of erotic. It also amazes me that these guys make such intense music and yet are so god damn goofy and down to earth. Good dudes.
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I had an f40fd that the screen started to go bad on. There was a section where the pixels went bad....luckily I could still return it to the store. I really liked the pictures this camera produced. Overall liked it much better than both the Panasonic fx33 and Canon sd1000.
With that said, I'd like to replace it with another Fuji. I really would like to wait until the f100fd comes down in price b/c I really would make use of the wider lens. On the other hand, I can get the f50fd for about $200 right now so am thinking that I might just go ahead and get it...
Would you all wait for a few months and get the f100fd? I don't have an immediate need right now so waiting won't kill me. Would love to hear y'alls opinion.
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My right arm is bigger then my left!
My right arm is bigger then my left!
I know it's because I'm right-hand dominant, but still, this really bugs me. Any way to get my arms to match up before I have to walk around too much sleeveless? Is it just a matter of working out the left one more?
Weight training.
I'd buy some dumbbells and start doing curls with my left arm while at the computer.
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I've known a lot of teenage boys to have that problem…
MOTH Yes, you should work out your other arm more. It will catch up. Everyones body parts are different sizes for sure so don't go examining anything else LOL…just kidding. I've done it before and actually have to do it again because my left arm is smaller. Totally strange thing with me though is when I do curls, it's my more muscular right arm that gets tired first…go figure LOL.
Don't stress, it's no biggie to fix. When I did it in the past I just added 2-3 more reps per set on the smaller arm until it caught up.
My left hand is smaller than my right – probably not so that anyone would notice, but I wear a half-size smaller ring on each finger of my left hand than the same one on my right. :)
I have that problem too. Except it's most muscles on the right side of my body that are larger than my left. All the way from my shoulder muscles, biceps, triceps, down to my hamstrings, calves, etc. However, mine is caused by another reason. My hips are misaligned. Sometimes things aren't always what they seem. It might be caused by more than just a dominant right hand. Just a thought.


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The $16 million deal would give Cisco products and technology designed to tie together various network devices and manage them as a single system.
Closely held Jahi Networks, based in San Jose and Hyderabad, India, makes products aimed at tying together disparate network gear and providing a common management interface for switches, routers, security products and other hardware, Cisco says. Whereas enterprise network administrators commonly write custom scripts, or even whole applications, to manage different devices, the Jahi technology lets users view network gear as "virtual devices" and configure these devices through one application.
The acquisition is expected to close in the first quarter of 2005. Jahi Networks' 20 employees will become part of Cisco's Network Management Technology Group, which develops CiscoWorks network management software and other management technologies.
Making various boxes on a network behave more like a unified system has been a focus for Cisco in the last few years. Cisco says such networks would be less expensive to manage for enterprise customers, and provide greater reliability and security.
This has been the focus of Cisco Chief Development Officer Mario Mazzola, who has previously stated that Cisco is taking more of a system approach to building products, as opposed to concentrating on just feeds and speeds in network devices. "This will be necessary in the shift from [product-level] resiliency to system resiliency," he said at the company's analyst meeting late last year.
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A New York City theatre company plans to buy the rights to The Prodigal, a stage musical that originated in Federal Way, and make it an off-Broadway feature.
Representatives of the company pursued the acquisition after attending a performance of the show during its Jan. 23-Feb. 8 run at Highline Performing Arts Center in Burien.
Andrew T. Miller, the playwright and composer, is working out the details with the company, which is remaining anonymous to the public at this time, said Pat De Vol Nadon, who heads marketing of the production locally.
Initial plans call for The Prodigal to be be part of the 2005-06 season at the companys theater and, if its a hit, be staged later in another theater on NYCs fabled Broadway.
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The Prodigal mixes humor and inspirational messages in a tale of a prodigal son who gives up his home and family and blows his inheritance in pursuit of happiness. The frequent bawdiness of the central characters journey, which ends with his return to the forgiveness of a loving father, has been described by Miller as over the top but built on a message of unconditional love and spirituality.
Miller was commissioned to write the Broadway-style play and the music by Federal Way United Methodist Church, where he is music director. He also is associate director and composer-in-residence for the Federal Way Chorale.
In the Burien production of Prodigal, the 62-person cast headed by Robert McPherson, an opera tenor whose stage credits stretch to France included 16 actors who live in Federal Way or have ties here as performers. Twenty-four members of the Seattle Symphony performed the musical score.
Miller has agreed to be the music director for the New York production. He said McPherson and at least one other member of the cast here, John Cooper, will be asked to audition for roles in the Big Apple.
A friend of a friend invited the head of the NYC theater company to watch The Prodigal last year at Federal Way United Methodist Church, Miller related. The theater honcho returned with his board to watch one of the Burien performances.
Churches and other theater groups across the country also like what theyve seen or heard of the show so much that Miller said hell license it for the next 12 months so they can produce it, too.
I never expected this kind of reaction and interest, he said. He gave credit to the great combination of talent in the Burien production.
Miller has made a mark musically by composing, arranging and recording several albums, including In Love With Santa, which reached no. 8 on the Billboard music charts in 2002. In another recording, his arrangement of "Danny Boy" was part of National Geographic's Destination Ireland compilation CD.
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