Adolescent health: a report to the U.S. Congress.

This article reports findings from an assessment by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), an analytical arm of the U.S. Congress.

Assessing information for consumers on the quality of medical care.

In recent years support for better public information on the quality of medical care has intensified, while the validity of the information available has been questioned. To address these concerns, we evaluated the reliability and validity of using each of 10 possible indicators to measure hospital and physician quality and the feasibility of providing the results to the public. We found that several of these indicators can provide useful, though not definitive, information on quality.