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      Essential Health Care Services Related to Anxiety and Mood Disorders in Women

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Health Care Services, Forum on Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders

      At the request of the Health Resources and Services Administration, the National Academies Forum on Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders hosted a public workshop in April 2024 to explore…

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      Care without Coverage: Too Little, Too Late

      Institute of Medicine,Board of Health Care Services,Committee on the Consequences of Uninsurance

      Examines the real consequences for adults who lack health insurance. This study presents findings in the areas of prevention and screening, cancer, chronic illness, hospital-based care, and general health status.

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      Serious Illness Care Research

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Health Care Services, Roundtable on Quality Care for People with Serious Illness

      To explore the current and future state of serious illness care research, the National Academies Roundtable on Quality Care for People with Serious Illness hosted a public workshop in November…

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      The Role of Telehealth in an Evolving Health Care Environment: Workshop Summary

      Board on Health Care Services,Institute of Medicine

      In 1996, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released its report Telemedicine: A Guide to Assessing Telecommunications for Health Care. In that report, the IOM Committee on Evaluating Clinical Applications of…

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      The National Emergency Care Enterprise: Advancing Care Through Collaboration: Workshop Summary

      Board on Health Care Services,Institute of Medicine

      In 2006, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released a series of three books on the Future of Emergency Care in the United States Health System. These reports contained recommendations that…

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      Regionalizing Emergency Care: Workshop Summary

      Institute of Medicine

      During medical emergencies, hospital staff and emergency medical services (EMS) providers, can face barriers in delivering the fastest and best possible care. Overcrowded emergency rooms cannot care for patients as…

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      Allied Health Workforce and Services: Workshop Summary

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      The demand for health care is growing as the nation ages and seeks to provide coverage for the millions of Americans who lack health insurance. At the same time, escalating…

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      Retooling for an Aging America: Building the Health Care Workforce

      Committee on the Future Health Care Workforce for Older Americans,Institute of Medicine

      As the first of the nation’s 78 million baby boomers begin reaching age 65 in 2011, they may face a health care workforce that is too small. This title calls…

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      Advancing Oral Health in America

      Committee on an Oral Health Initiative,Institute of Medicine

      Though it is highly preventable, tooth decay is a common chronic disease both in the United States and worldwide. Evidence shows that decay and other oral diseases may be associated…

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      America’s Uninsured Crisis: Consequences for Health and Health Care

      Committee on Health Insurance Status and Its Consequences,Institute of Medicine

      When policy makers and researchers consider potential solutions to the crisis of uninsurance in the United States, the question of whether health insurance matters to health is often an issue…

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      Quality Through Collaboration: The Future of Rural Health Care

      Committee on the Future of Rural Health Care,National Academy of Sciences

      Building on the innovative Institute of Medicine reports To Err Is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm, this book offers a strategy to address the quality challenges in rural communities…

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      Coverage Matters: Insurance and Health Care

      Committee on the Consequences of Uninsurance,Board on Health Care Services,Institute of Medicine,National Academy of Sciences

      Explores the myths and realities of who is uninsured, identifies social, economic, and policy factors that contribute to the situation, and describes the likelihood faced by members of population groups…

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      The State of Quality Improvement and Implementation Research: Expert Views

      Samantha Chao,Forum on the Science of Health Care Quality Improvement and Implementation

      The Institute of Medicine (IOM) workshop The Conduct of Health Care Quality Improvement and Implementation Research was held on May 24-25, 2007, in Irvine, CA. This book helps you understand…

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      Creating a Business Case for Quality Improvement Research: Expert Views, Workshop Summary

      Forum on the Science of Health Care Quality Improvement and Implementation,Institute of Medicine

      Creating a Business Case for Quality Improvement Research focuses on issues related to improving the science supporting health care quality and eliminating communication barriers that prevent advances in the field…

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      Essential Health Care Services Addressing Intimate Partner Violence

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Board on Health Care Services, Committee on Sustaining Essential Health Care Services Related to Intimate Partner Violence During Public Health Emergencies

      A National Academies committee was tasked with identifying essential health care services for women related to intimate partner violence (IPV) during steady state conditions, determining whether the essential health care…

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      Health IT and Patient Safety: Building Safer Systems for Better Care

      Committee on Patient Safety and Health Information Technology,Institute of Medicine

      IOM’s 1999 landmark study To Err is Human estimated that between 44,000 and 98,000 lives are lost every year due to medical errors. This call to action has led to…

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      Initial National Priorities for Comparative Effectiveness Research

      Committee on Comparative Effectiveness Research Prioritization,Institute of Medicine

      Clinical research presents health care providers with information on the natural history and clinical presentations of disease as well as diagnostic and treatment options. In today’s healthcare system, patients, physicians…

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      Setting the Course: A Strategic Vision for Immunization: Part 2: Summary of the Austin Workshop

      Committee on the Immunization Finance Dissemination Workshops,Board on Health Care Services,Institute of Medicine,National Academy of Sciences

      Immunization is essential to disease prevention efforts in public health, but the U.S. health care system faces financial challenges that are affecting the delivery of immunization services. An earlier report…

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      Redesigning Continuing Education in the Health Professions

      Committee on Planning a Continuing Health Professional Education Institute,Institute of Medicine

      Today in the United States, the professional health workforce is not consistently prepared to provide high quality health care and assure patient safety, even as the nation spends more per…

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      Health Insurance is a Family Matter

      Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Care Services,Committee on the Consequences of Uninsurance

      Presents the third of a series of reports on the problems of uninsurance and addresses the impact on the family of not having health insurance. This book argues that uninsured…

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      A Shared Destiny: Community Effects of Uninsurance

      Committee on the Consequences of Uninsurance,National Academy of Sciences

      Dealing with the problems of uninsurance in the US, this report examines how the quality, quantity, and scope of community health services can be adversely affected by having a large…

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      Hidden Costs, Value Lost: Uninsurance in America

      Committee on the Consequences of Uninsurance,Board on Health Care Services,Institute of Medicine,National Academy of Sciences

      Deals with the consequences of uninsurance in the United States, and illustrates some of the economic and social losses of maintaining people without health insurance. This fifth book in the…

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      Insuring America’s Health: Principles and Recommendations

      Committee on the Consequences of Uninsurance,National Academy of Sciences

      Being uninsured is associated with a range of adverse health, social, and economic consequences for individuals and families. This report is the final report in a series by the Committee…

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      Assessing and Improving Value in Cancer Care: Workshop Summary

      Institute of Medicine

      Unlike many other areas in health care, the practice of oncology presents unique challenges that make assessing and improving value especially complex. First, patients and professionals feel a well-justified sense…

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      Expanding Behavioral Health Care Workforce Participation in Medicare, Medicaid, and Marketplace Plans

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Health Care Services, Committee on Strategies to Improve Access to Behavioral Health Care Services through Medicare and Medicaid

      About 20 percent of all Americans live with a behavioral health condition, but only half of this population receives treatment - with direct consequences that include poor physical health outcomes…

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      Advancing Quality Improvement Research: Challenges and Opportunities - Workshop Summary

      Forum on the Science of Health Care Quality Improvement and Implementation,National Academy of Sciences

      Summary of a workshop held by the Institute of Medicine’s Forum on the Science of Health Care Quality Improvement on January 16, 2007, in Washington DC.

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      Improving Diagnosis in Health Care

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Care Services,Committee on Diagnostic Error in Health Care

      Getting the right diagnosis is a key aspect of health care - it provides an explanation of a patient’s health problem and informs subsequent health care decisions. The diagnostic process…

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      Improving the Quality of Health Care for Mental and Substance-Use Conditions

      Committee on Crossing the Quality Chasm: Adaptation to Mental Health and Addictive Disorders,National Academy of Sciences

      Examines the characteristics of health care for mental and substance-use conditions, including payment, benefit coverage, and regulatory issues, as well as health care organization and delivery issues.

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      Emergency Care for Children: Growing Pains

      Committee on the Future of Emergency Care in the United States Health System,National Academy of Sciences

      Examines the challenges associated with the provision of emergency services to children and families and evaluates its progress. This book will be helpful for emergency health care providers, professional organizations…

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      Hospital-Based Emergency Care: At the Breaking Point

      Committee on the Future of Emergency Care in the United States Health System,National Academy of Sciences

      Addresses the difficulty of balancing the roles of hospital-based emergency and trauma care, not simply urgent and lifesaving care, but also safety net care for uninsured patients, public health surveillance…

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      Emergency Medical Services: At the Crossroads

      Committee on the Future of Emergency Care in the United States Health System,National Academy of Sciences

      Examines the operational structure of EMS by presenting an analysis of the organization, delivery, and financing of these types of services and systems. This book is helpful for emergency care…

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      Setting the Course: A Strategic Vision for Immunization

      Committee on the Immunization Finance Dissemination Workshops,Board on Health Care Services,Institute of Medicine,National Academy of Sciences

      Immunization is essential to disease prevention efforts in public health, but the nation’s immunization system faces financing challenges that are affecting the delivery of services. A 2000 report from the…

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      Setting the Course: A Strategic Vision for Immunization: Part 4: Summary of the Washington, D.C., Workshop

      Committee on the Immunization Finance Dissemination Workshops,Board on Health Care Services,Institute of Medicine,National Academy of Sciences

      In 2000, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) produced a report Calling the Shots: Immunization Finance Policies and Practices (IOM, 2000a) that illustrated the uncertainties and instability of the public health…

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      Evaluating the HRSA Traumatic Brain Injury Program

      Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Care Services,Committee on Traumatic Brain Injury

      Evaluating the HRSA Traumatic Brain Injury Program (2006)

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      Policy Issues in the Development of Personalized Medicine in Oncology: Workshop Summary

      Institute of Medicine

      … the National Cancer Policy Forum held a workshop, Policy Issues in the Development of Personalized Medicine in Oncology, in Washington, DC, on June 8 and 9, 2009. –P. 1.

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      A Foundation for Evidence-Driven Practice: A Rapid Learning System for Cancer Care: Workshop Summary

      Institute of Medicine

      The IOM’s National Cancer Policy Forum held a workshop October 5-6, 2009, to examine how to apply the concept of a ‘rapid learning health system’ to the problem of cancer…

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      Nanotechnology and Oncology: Workshop Summary

      Institute of Medicine

      One way scientists are working to overcome challenges in cancer treatment and improve cancer care is through nanotechnology. Nanotechnology, engineered materials that make use of the unique physical properties, presents…

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      Keeping Patients Safe: Transforming the Work Environment of Nurses

      Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Care Services,Committee on the Work Environment for Nurses and Patient Safety

      Building on the Institute of Medicine reports, this work lays out guidelines for improving patient safety by changing nurses working conditions and demands. It discusses the key aspects of the…

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      Future of Emergency Care: Dissemination Workshop Summaries

      In June 2006, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee on the Future of Emergency Care in the U.S. Health System released a series of reports on the state of emergency…

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      Knowing What Works in Health Care: A Roadmap for the Nation

      Committee on Reviewing Evidence to Identify Highly Effective Clinical Services

      Looks at three fundamental health care issues in the United States - setting priorities for evidence assessment, assessing evidence, and developing evidence-based clinical practice guidelines - and how each of…

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      Priority Areas for National Action: Transforming Health Care Quality

      Committee on Identifying Priority Areas for Quality Improvement,Board on Health Care Services,Institute of Medicine,National Academy of Sciences

      A new release in the Quality Chasm Series, Priority Areas for National Action recommends a set of 20 priority areas that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and…

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      The Role of Obesity in Cancer Survival and Recurrence: Workshop Summary

      National Cancer Policy Forum,Board on Health Care Services,Institute of Medicine

      . .the National Cancer Policy Forum (NCPF) of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) held a 2-day workshop on The Role of Obesity in Cancer Survival and Recurrence, in Washington, DC…

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      Informatics Needs and Challenges in Cancer Research: Workshop Summary

      Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Care Services,National Cancer Policy Forum

      As information technology becomes an integral part of health care, it is important to collect and analyze data in a way that makes the information understandable and useful. Informatics tools–which…

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      Identifying and Addressing the Needs of Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer: Workshop Summary

      Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Care Services,National Cancer Policy Forum

      Presents the summary of a workshop convened by the Institute of Medicine’s National Cancer Policy Forum in July 2013 to facilitate discussion about gaps and challenges in caring for adolescent…

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      Contemporary Issues for Protecting Patients in Cancer Research: Workshop Summary

      National Cancer Policy Forum,Board on Health Care Services,Institute of Medicine

      In the nearly 40 years since implementation of federal regulations governing the protection of human participants in research, the number of clinical studies has grown exponentially. These studies have become…

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      Ensuring Patient Access to Affordable Cancer Drugs: Workshop Summary

      National Cancer Policy Forum,Board on Health Care Services,Institute of Medicine

      In recent years, patients’ out-of-pocket costs for cancer care have been rising rapidly. These costs include health insurance deductibles, coinsurance, and copayments for covered services, as well as services that…

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      Challenges in Adolescent Health Care: Workshop Report

      Committee on Adolescent Health Care Services and Models of Care for Treatment, Prevention, and Healthy Development,National Research Council,Institute of Medicine

      Several positive and negative lifelong behaviors are established during adolescence including diet and exercise, sexual conduct, practices related to oral health, smoking, drinking, and the use if legal and illegal…

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      Finding What Works in Health Care: Standards for Systematic Reviews

      Committee on Standards for Systematic Reviews of Comparative Effectiveness Research,Institute of Medicine

      Healthcare decision makers in search of reliable information comparing health interventions increasingly turn to systematic reviews for the best summary of the evidence. Systematic reviews identify, select, assess, and synthesize…

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