Aligning forces for quality: the Wisconsin way.

Aligning Forces for Quality offers a tremendous opportunity for Wisconsin's health care stakeholders to work together to advance the quality of chronic care. Wisconsin is well-poised to work collaboratively on this initiative, has already taken significant initial steps toward its aims, and has the capacity for further improvement. Together we can make a difference by aligning the forces for quality the Wisconsin way.

Autopsy services for dementia patients.

Chiefs of Pathology of every nonfederal hospital in Maryland were surveyed to determine their hospitals' experience with autopsies of dementia patients. Few pathology services had extensive, ongoing experience with these postmortem examinations, and many hospitals lacked special histochemical techniques or a referral system to evaluate them. Problems exist in obtaining postmortem examinations for dementia patients, especially those who die outside facilities with Autopsy Services.