The pursuit of quality by business coalitions: a national survey.

Full Abstract

The extent to which business coalitions and their employer members are catalysts for improving quality of care is of interest to policymakers, who need to know where and under what circumstances the marketplace succeeds on its own in assuring quality. Using data from the 1998 National Business Coalition on Health annual survey, this paper indicates that most coalitions have an infrastructure in place that could be tapped to advance quality goals. Although the survey data cannot tell us the extent to which coalitions are exercising their enhanced market influence specifically to improve quality, interviews with coalition leaders provide insights about how quality considerations can factor into coalition strategies.

Author information

Author/s: Fraser, I (I); McNamara, P (P); Lehman, G O (GO); Isaacson, S (S); Moler, K (K);

Affiliation: Center for Organization and Delivery Studies, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR), Rockville, Maryland, USA.

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article

Journal: Health affairs (Project Hope) (Health Aff (Millwood)), published in UNITED STATES. (Language: eng)

Reference: -1999 Nov-Dec; vol 18 (issue 6) : pp 158-65

Dates: Created 2000/02/22; Completed 2000/02/22; Revised 2004/11/17;

PMID: 10650698, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 2/18/2009, IMS Date: )

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