| Summary: | <p style="text-align:justify;"> Quality of care is of prime importance to patients, health-care providers, governments, and third-party payers. In addition to major concerns in some areas such as access, costs continue to climb, raising concerns about sustainability of health-care systems and the ability of society to continue to pay for health care. Rising health-care costs are due to many factors, including administrative costs, inefficient care, litigation, an aging population requiring advanced care, and technological advances. There have been many calls for health-care reform, mostly stemming from reports about unsustainable rises in costs of care. </p>
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