Dec 29, 2006 | Laboratory News, Laboratory Pathology
When the NCQA reported significant improvements in healthcare last September, an Associated Press article on this topic was picked up by Yahoo News, CBS, Fox and many other news sources across the country. It was likely so widely reprinted because it was a rare piece of good news: The quality of the health care provided to millions of Americans improved last year across several dozen categories! It is first evidence that efforts to improve patient safety and encourage providers to follow...