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Effect of a Patient Care Partnership Project on Cost and Quality of Care at an Academic Teaching Hospital

Authors: H CARLTON PALMER, JR, MD, ALAN HALPERIN, MD, MIKE ELNICKI, MD, ROXANN POWERS, MD, MARIA KOLAR, MD, KIM EVANS, KATHLEEN ANDERSON, MBA

Abstract

Background.In 1998, the Patient Care Partnership Project was conducted by general internal medicine physicians and hospital administration in an academic health care center. The project was designed to optimize cost, quality, and service results to inpatients.

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