The Quality gap. Medicine's secret killer
Description
What is the most costly element of America's trillion-dollar healthcare system? Surprisingly, experts believe it is the medical quality gap and medical errors, which they estimate take more than 90,000 lives each year. In this program, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hedrick Smith examines New York's tough performance reports on doctors and hospitals doing open-heart surgery; profiles a pioneering effort by a VA hospital in Kentucky to confront medical errors; and shows breakthrough quality improvement drives in northern New England and Utah. Each case study is an eye-opener for an American public that rates high-quality care as its number one health priority.
Runtime
49 min
Series
Subjects
- Social medicine (64)
- Political planning (192)
- Public health (338)
- Social policy (88)
- Health planning (100)
- Public policy (Law) (168)
Contributor
Geography
Genre
Date of Publication
[2005], c2000
Database
Films on Demand
Direct Link
https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=https://fod.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=102638&xtid=10943
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