Effectiveness and Outcomes in Health Care:

Proceedings of an Invitational Conference

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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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