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The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) is an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in the United States that works to improve health care quality through the administration of evidence-based standards, measures, programs, and accreditation. The National Committee for Quality Assurance operates on a formula of measure ...
The Merck Manual of Geriatrics was introduced in 1990, focusing on health care for older patients. The Merck Manual of Health & Aging is a consumer edition. The Manuals for human health were converted to a web-based format in 2015 and are hosted on MerckManuals.com in the US and Canada, and MSDManuals.com throughout the rest of the world.
As of December 2015, there are more than 2,000 retail clinics located in 41 states and Washington, DC in the United States. [2] Retail clinics are staffed by physician assistants or nurse practitioners and most are open seven days a week – twelve hours a day during the workweek and eight hours a day on the weekend. [3]
A health care provider is an individual health professional or a health facility organization licensed to provide health care diagnosis and treatment services including medication, surgery and medical devices. Health care providers often receive payments for their services rendered from health insurance providers.
Clinfowiki is devoted to topics in biomedical informatics and is maintained by the Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology at Oregon Health and Science University. [1] Dean F. Sittig launched the site on 27 June 2005, and as of 12 January 2017, [update] Vishnu Mohan was its editor.
The Joint Commission is a United States-based nonprofit tax-exempt 501(c) organization [1] that accredits more than 22,000 US health care organizations and programs. [2] The international branch accredits medical services from around the world.
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Overall, there were 20 trained health providers per 100,000 inhabitants. These ratios have since shown some improvement. Health care is disproportionately available in urban centers; in rural areas where the vast majority of the population resides, access to health care varies from limited to nonexistent.