Effectiveness and Outcomes in Health Care: Proceedings of an Invitational Conference

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Front Matter (R1-R16)

Part I: Introduction, 1 Genesis of the Effectiveness Initiative and IOM (1-7)

2 Promise and Limitations of Effectiveness and Outcomes Research (8-18)

Part II: Overview, 3 Research on the Effectiveness of Medical Treatment: New Challenges and Opportunities (19-26)

4 The Health Care Financing Administration and the Effectiveness Initiative (27-30)

5 The Effectiveness Initiative: Retrospective and Prospects (31-33)

6 The Social Perspective (34-37)

7 The Clinical Perspective (38-43)

8 The Legislative Perspective (44-48)

Part III: The IOM Clinical Condition Workshops, 9 Breast Cancer (49-60)

10 Hip Fracture (61-64)

11 Claims Data and Effectiveness: Acute Myocardial Infarction and Other Examples (65-70)

Part IV: Methodological Issues and Work in Progress, 12 The Role of Large Data Bases in Effectiveness Research (71-79)

13 Administrative Data in Effectiveness Studies: The Prostatectomy Assessment (80-93)

14 Issues in the Use of Large Data Bases for Effectiveness Research (94-106)

15 Measuring Patient Function and Well-Being: Some Lessons from the Medical Outcomes Study (107-119)

16 The Uniform Clinical Data Set (120-136)

17 Assessing Health-Related Quality of Life Outcomes (137-151)

18 Using Patient Reports of Outcomes to Assess Effectiveness of Medical Care (152-159)

19 Studying Outcomes for Patients with Depression: Initial Findings from the Medical Outcomes Study (160-172)

20 Effectiveness Research and Changing Physician Practice Patterns (173-178)

21 Applying Effectiveness and Outcomes Research to Clinical Practice (179-189)

22 An Attempt to Manage Variation in Obstetrical Practice (190-200)

23 Using Outcome Measures to Improve Care Delivered by Physicians and Hospitals (201-212)

Part V: Where Do We Go From Here?, 24 The Need for Reasonable Expectations (213-217)

25 Use of Effectiveness Research in Managed Care Plans (218-223)

26 Gaining Acceptance for Effectiveness and Outcomes Research (224-226)

List of Authors (227-230)