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The Future of the Hospital Epidemiologist in the 1990s: Presidential Address, SHEAAnnual Meeting, April 1994

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Peter A. Gross
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While the Democrats and the Republicans debate the Health Care Reform Bill and how we are going to pay for universal coverage, a revolution in healthcare delivery already is taking place right under our eyes. Even if the federal government doesn't pass legislation on healthcare this term, the healthcare delivery system will have been changed so dramatically that it will be unrecognizable from what we knew just a couple of years ago. Consolidation of hospitals, cost reduction, and the quality of care are themes that will be evident in medical delivery for the next few years. Among these three, cost reduction is and will be the engine of change.

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Special Report
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , March 1995 , pp. 179 - 182
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1995

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