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Health Care Reform: 'Report Cards' Are Useful but Significant Issues Need to Be Addressed

HEHS-94-219 Published: Sep 29, 1994. Publicly Released: Sep 29, 1994.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the development of health care report cards, focusing on the: (1) approaches that should be used to develop health care performance measures; (2) opportunities to misrepresent health care data; and (3) potential uses of report cards by consumers, providers, and health plans.

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Data collectionData integrityEvaluation methodsHealth care cost controlHealth care personnelHealth care programsHealth care reformHealth insuranceHealth services administrationMedical information systemsQuality assuranceQuality of care