The Role of Professional Registered Nurses in Professional Standards Review Organizations: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, First Session, September 30, 1977

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Seite 14 - In order to promote the effective, efficient, and economical delivery of health care services of proper quality for which payment may be made (in whole or in part) under this Act and in recognition of the interests of patients, the public, practitioners, and providers in improved health care services, it is the purpose of this part to assure, through the application of suitable procedures of professional standards review, that the services for which payment may be made under the Social Security Act...
Seite 8 - I want to thank you and other members of the committee for your kind reception of the Federation's testimony.
Seite 44 - Secretary to — (1) make arrangements to utilize the services of persons who are practitioners of or specialists in the various areas of medicine (including dentistry), or other types of health care, which persons shall, to the maximum extent practicable, be individuals engaged in the practice of their profession within the area served by such organization...
Seite 66 - Occupational therapists provide services to those individuals whose ability to cope with the tasks of living are threatened or impaired by developmental deficits, the aging process, poverty and cultural differences, physical injury or illness, or psychological and social disability.
Seite 50 - PROVISIONS'' (b) Title XI of such Act is further amended by adding the following : "PART B — PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS REVIEW "DECLARATION OF PURPOSE "SEC. 1151. In order to promote the effective, efficient, and economical delivery of health care services of proper quality...
Seite 44 - For purposes of subsection (a), the term "qualified organization" means — (1) when used in connection with any area — (A) an organization (i) which is a nonprofit professional association (or a component organization thereof ) , (ii) which is composed of licensed doctors of medicine or osteopathy engaged in the practice of medicine or surgery in such area...
Seite 29 - Association has defined peer review as "the process by which registered nurses, actively engaged in the practice of nursing, appraise the quality of nursing care in a given situation in accordance with established standards of...
Seite 29 - The program is based on the concepts that health professionals are the most appropriate individuals to evaluate the quality of medical services and that effective peer review at the local level is the soundest method for assuring the appropriate use of health care resources and facilities.
Seite 65 - Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Oversight of the House Committee on Ways and Means, 101st Cong., 2d Sess.
Seite 36 - I am pleased to have the opportunity to meet with you today to do whatever I can to assist your Committee's Inquiry into the problem of Inflation In our- national economy.

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