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CONSUMER ADVOCACY, ELECTIVE SURGERY, AND THE "GOLDEN ERA OF MEDICINE

From the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa; and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California

The process of medical quality assurance evolved logically from the consumer advocacy movement of the past decades. This process has fundamentally altered the personal and legal relationship between patients and physicians. The need for development and adoption of a medically, ethically, and fiscally sound standard of elective surgical practice is clear and immediate. A system that may be used to evaluate the appropriateness of elective surgical procedures is proposed