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965098
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b719468
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The healthcare imperative : : lowering costs and improving outcomes : workshop series summary /\ Pierre L. Yong, Robert S. Saunders, and LeighAnne Olsen, editors ; Roundtable on Value Science-Driven Health Care ; Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.
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| Publication Statement
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Washington, D.C. :: National Academies Press,, ©2010.
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| Series Statement
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Learning health system series
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1 online resource (xxiv, 631 pages) :: illustrations, map.
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| ISBN
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0309144337
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: 0309144345
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: 1283376121
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: 9780309144339
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: 9780309144346
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: 9781283376129
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0309144337
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9780309144339
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references.
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| Contents
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SECTION I -- EXCESSIVE HEALTHCARE COSTS: The healthcare imperative -- Unnecessary services -- Inefficiently delivered services -- Excess administrative costs -- Prices that are too high -- Missed prevention opportunities -- SECTION II -- STRATEGIES THAT WORK: Strategies that work -- Knowledge enhancement -- Care culture and system redesign -- Transparency of cost and performance -- Payment and payer-based strategies -- Community-based and transitional care -- Entrepreneurial strategies -- SECTION III -- THE POLICY AGENDA: The policy agenda -- Payments for value over volume -- Medically complex patients -- Delivery system integration -- Delivery system efficiency -- Administrative simplification -- Consumer-directed policies -- SECTION IV -- GETTING TO 10 PERCENT: Taking stock: numbers and policies -- Getting to 10 percent: opportunities and requirements -- Common themes and next steps.
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| Abstract
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Summarizes workshops convened in May, July, September, and December 2009 by the Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Value & Science-Driven Health Care (formerly the Roundtable on Evidence-Based Medicine), to explore the sources and implications of waste and excess cost in health care, as well as strategies and policies necessary to address these issues.
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Medical care-- United States-- Cost control, Congresses.
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Medical care, Cost of-- United States-- Evaluation, Congresses.
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Medical policy-- United States, Congresses.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Industries-- General.
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Medical care-- Cost control.
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Medical care, Cost of-- Evaluation.
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Medical policy.
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Health Care Costs-- United States, Congresses.
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Costs and Cost Analysis-- United States, Congresses.
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Health Policy-- United States, Congresses.
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Outcome Assessment (Health Care)-- United States, Congresses.
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Quality of Health Care-- United States, Congresses.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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338.4336210973
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| LC Classification
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RA410.53.H4365 2010eb
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W 74 AA1H434 2010
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Olsen, LeighAnne.
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Saunders, Robert Samuel,1978-
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Yong, Pierre L.
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Institute of Medicine (U.S.)., Roundtable on Value Science-Driven Health Care.
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