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But the current processes for determining issues such as quality measures are highly political, Hayward said. "The science and the evidence often get left out," he said. "My personal belief is that this will not improve until we have independent groups that evaluate and give information based on the best medical evidence and what is best for the public. Right now, we don't have any such process."

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SOURCES: Bruce Landon M.D., M.B.A., associate professor, health-care policy and medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston; Rodney Hayward, M.D., director, health services research and development, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, and professor, medicine and public health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; March 1, 2007, New England Journal of Medicine


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