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Download full textGeneral Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1986
This report concerns the Health Care Financing Administration's (HCFA) contracting with Utilization and Quality Control Peer Review Organizations (PROs) as a means of monitoring the medical necessity and quality of in-hospital care provided to Medicare beneficiaries. Findings from a HCFA survey of PROs in California, Florida, and Georgia are used…
Descriptors: Health Needs, Hospitals, Medical Care Evaluation, Medical Services
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Aging. – 1985
This report from the Select Committee on Aging examines financial, medical, and social issues surrounding terminally ill patients with special emphasis on the elderly terminally ill. The first section discusses topics related to the medical treatment of the terminally ill. Two basic issues are important: the right to have medical treatment and the…
Descriptors: Costs, Death, Medical Services, Nursing Homes
Peer reviewedSteinberg, Alan; And Others – Gerontologist, 1986
The ethical primacy of patient involvement in treatment decision-making requires that more attention be paid to assessment of a patient's competency to make treatment decisions. Makes recommendations to increase sensitivity to this issue with significantly impaired elderly nursing home patients and to improve existing decision-making procedures.…
Descriptors: Competence, Decision Making Skills, Institutionalized Persons, Medical Services
