Quality of Care: An Assessment of the Contributions of Osteopathic Medicine

Abstract

Abstract Since the advent of Medicare in 1965, the concept of quality of care in medical practice in the United States has been under review, and a revision of ideas and responsibilities to the patient (consumer) has had a major impact on the system of delivery. In little, more than ten years, there have been major changes in the health care system in the United States, with a necessary delineation of the contributions to total health care of followers of two separate and distinct philosophies of medicine that are coexistent and recognized equally by the legislation of the United States. The purpose of this paper is to consider the quality of care rendered by the minority school of medicine through the services of the osteopathic community hospital and possible methods of improving it.