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Effectiveness and Outcomes in Health Care:

Proceedings of an Invitational Conference

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Size: 246 pages, 6 x 9

Publication Year:1990


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Front Matter i-xvi  
Part I: Introduction, 1 Genesis of the Effectiveness Initiative and IOM 1-7 (skim)
2 Promise and Limitations of Effectiveness and Outcomes Research 8-18 (skim)
Part II: Overview, 3 Research on the Effectiveness of Medical Treatment: New Challenges and Opportunities 19-26 (skim)
4 The Health Care Financing Administration and the Effectiveness Initiative 27-30 (skim)
5 The Effectiveness Initiative: Retrospective and Prospects 31-33 (skim)
6 The Social Perspective 34-37 (skim)
7 The Clinical Perspective 38-43 (skim)
8 The Legislative Perspective 44-48 (skim)
Part III: The IOM Clinical Condition Workshops, 9 Breast Cancer 49-60 (skim)
10 Hip Fracture 61-64 (skim)
11 Claims Data and Effectiveness: Acute Myocardial Infarction and Other Examples 65-70 (skim)
Part IV: Methodological Issues and Work in Progress, 12 The Role of Large Data Bases in Effectiveness Research 71-79 (skim)
13 Administrative Data in Effectiveness Studies: The Prostatectomy Assessment 80-93 (skim)
14 Issues in the Use of Large Data Bases for Effectiveness Research 94-106 (skim)
15 Measuring Patient Function and Well-Being: Some Lessons from the Medical Outcomes Study 107-119 (skim)
16 The Uniform Clinical Data Set 120-136 (skim)
17 Assessing Health-Related Quality of Life Outcomes 137-151 (skim)
18 Using Patient Reports of Outcomes to Assess Effectiveness of Medical Care 152-159 (skim)
19 Studying Outcomes for Patients with Depression: Initial Findings from the Medical Outcomes Study 160-172 (skim)
20 Effectiveness Research and Changing Physician Practice Patterns 173-178 (skim)
21 Applying Effectiveness and Outcomes Research to Clinical Practice 179-189 (skim)
22 An Attempt to Manage Variation in Obstetrical Practice 190-200 (skim)
23 Using Outcome Measures to Improve Care Delivered by Physicians and Hospitals 201-212 (skim)
Part V: Where Do We Go From Here?, 24 The Need for Reasonable Expectations 213-217 (skim)
25 Use of Effectiveness Research in Managed Care Plans 218-223 (skim)
26 Gaining Acceptance for Effectiveness and Outcomes Research 224-226 (skim)
List of Authors 227-230 (skim)

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