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Health Education & Behavior, Vol. 9, No. 1, 42-54 (1982)
DOI: 10.1177/109019818200900103

The Role of Patient Interventions in Ambulatory Quality Assurance Programs

Susan Wilner, Sc.D., M.P.H.

Department of Health Promotion and Education at the Harvard Community Health Plan, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA.

Richard N. Winickoff, M.D.

Staff for Ambulatory Care at the Veterans' Administration Medical Center, West Roxbury, MA

Stephen C. Schoenbaum, M.D., M.P.H.

Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Kathy L. Coltin, M.P.H.

Harvard Community Health Plan, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA.

This paper highlights several studies conducted by a quality assurance research program in a health maintenance organization which provide tangible support for the need to integrate patient interventions with quality assurance activities. A model for quality assurance is described which proposes to include identification of the role of patient behavior in affecting health outcomes, and to develop intervention mechanisms directed towards patients. The experiences from this investigation suggest the need to add patient interventions to the traditional quality assurance efforts of affecting system and provider behaviors. Four of the ten projects conducted are described to illustrate these issues. Topics reviewed are maternity care, hypertension, management of breast disease, and pap smears for high-risk women. These recommendations are particularly appropriate for health maintenance organizations since both quality assurance and health education programs are mandated in the 1973 HMO Act. However, these findings are of relevance to other ambulatory care settings as well.


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