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Guidelines for Criteria of Care

Claude E. Welch, MD

JAMA. 1975;232(1):47-50.

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PRESERVATION of high-quality medical care in the future will depend in an important way on standards set by local Professional Standards Review Organizations (PSROs). Such standards must be based on criteria that are applicable initially to the care of patients in short-term hospitals with specific diagnoses or problems. The development of model criteria was assigned in 1972 by the American Medical Association to a Task Force on Guidelines of Care. A report from this Task Force appeared approximately six months ago.^1,2 It is the purpose of this communication to outline the related activities of the AMA since that date and to indicate future plans.

Historical Note

In June 1974, the AMA House of Delegates directed the Board of Trustees to "exert efforts to insure appropriate regulations and directives of PL 92-603." Meanwhile, the Office of Professional Standards Review-Bureau of Quality Assurance (OPSR-BQA) of the Department of Health, Education, and . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Project Steering Committee of the AMA Criteria Development Project. For a complete list of Committee members, see p 50.

Footnotes
Reprint requests to Department of Health Insurance, American Medical Association, 535 N Dearborn St, Chicago, IL 60610 (Mr. Albert C. Stolper).

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