How does the quality of care compare in five countries?(Health Care Policy)

"US policymakers and clinicians often recite the mantra, 'Americans have the best medical care in the world.' The empirical basis for this statement is unclear; The limited empirical international data on quality that exist--life expectancy and infant mortality statistics--place the United States in the bottom quartile of industrialized countries, although most observers do not attribute this poor performance primarily to the performance of the medical care system.

[Our study presents] data collected for 21 quality indicators in five countries [Australia, Canada, New Zealand, England, and the United States]. The results are standardized so that indicators with …