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Guidelines for the clinical practice of medicine have been proposed
as the solution to the whole range of current health care problems.
This new book presents the first balanced and highly practical view
of guidelines--their strengths, their limitations, and how they can
be used most effectively to benefit health care.
The volume offers
Recommendations and a proposed framework for strengthening
development and use of guidelines.
Numerous examples of guidelines.
A ready-to-use instrument for assessing the soundness of
guidelines.
Six case studies exploring issues involved when practitioners use
guidelines on a daily basis.
With a real-world outlook, the volume reviews efforts by agencies
and organizations to disseminate guidelines and examines how well
guidelines are functioning--exploring issues such as patient
information, liability, costs, computerization, and the adaptation
of national guidelines to local needs.
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Assessing Health Care Reform (Paperback)
Institute of Medicine, Committee on Assessing Health Care Reform Proposals; Edited by Karl D Yordy, Kathleen N. Lohr, Marilyn J. Field
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R1,060
Discovery Miles 10 600
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This book establishes a framework for assessing health care reform
proposals and their implementation. It helps clarify objectives,
identifies issues to be addressed in proposals, distinguishes
between short- and long-term expectations and achievements, and
directs attention to important but sometimes neglected questions
about the organization and provision of health care services. In
addition, the volume presents a discussion and analysis of issues
essential to achieving fundamental goals of health care reform: to
maintain and improve health and well-being, to make basic health
coverage universal, and to encourage the efficient use of limited
resources. The book is a useful resource for anyone developing or
assessing options for reform. Table of Contents Front Matter
Preamble Extending Access to Health Care Containing Health Care
Costs Assuring the Quality of Care Financing Reform Improving the
Infrastructure for Effective Change Conclusion References
Regional health care databases are being established around the
country with the goal of providing timely and useful information to
policymakers, physicians, and patients. But their emergence is
raising important and sometimes controversial questions about the
collection, quality, and appropriate use of health care data. Based
on experience with databases now in operation and in development,
Health Data in the Information Age provides a clear set of
guidelines and principles for exploiting the potential benefits of
aggregated health data?without jeopardizing confidentiality. A
panel of experts identifies characteristics of emerging health
database organizations (HDOs). The committee explores how HDOs can
maintain the quality of their data, what policies and practices
they should adopt, how they can prepare for linkages with
computer-based patient records, and how diverse groups from
researchers to health care administrators might use aggregated
data. Health Data in the Information Age offers frank analysis and
guidelines that will be invaluable to anyone interested in the
operation of health care databases. Table of Contents Front Matter
Summary Introduction Health Databases and Health Database
Organizations: Uses, Benefits, and Concerns Public Disclosure of
Data on Health Care Providers and Practitioners Confidentiality and
Privacy of Personal Data References A Fact-Finding for the
Committee on Regional Health Data Networks Committee on Regional
Health Data Networks Biographical Sketches Glossary Acronyms Index
Health care for the elderly American is among our nation's more
pressing social issues. Our society wishes to ensure quality health
care for all older people, but there is growing concern about our
ability to maintain and improve quality in the face of efforts to
contain health care costs.
Medicare: A Strategy for Quality Assurance answers the U.S.
Congress' call for the Institute of Medicine to design a strategic
plan for assessing and assuring the quality of medical care for the
elderly. This book presents a proposed strategic plan for improving
quality assurance in the Medicare program, along with steps and
timetables for implementing the plan by the year 2000 and the 10
recommendations for action by Congress.
The book explores quality of care--how it is defined, measured, and
improved--and reviews different types of quality problems. Major
issues that affect approaches to assessing and assuring quality are
examined.
Medicare: A Strategy for Quality Assurance will be immediately
useful to a wide audience, including policymakers, health
administrators, individual providers, specialists in issues of the
older American, researchers, educators, and students.
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