Chapters12—Research: How Health Care Advances and 13–Future of Health Care Answer the following questions on Research: How Health Care Advances:

Definitions of the quality of medical care are no longer left to clinicians who decide for themselves what technical performance constitutes “good care.” Name one (1) other dimension of quality care and why is it important? What is the primary method of continuous quality improvement (CQI) in health care, and what is its underlying premise? Since an ever-increasing amount of research is funded by commercial companies, what is your opinion on a requirement for authors of scientific studies who receive income from these companies to disclose funding sources in their scientific publications?

Future of Health Care Questions:

Today’s not-for-profit hospitals and health systems