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      Interim Report of the Committee on Geographic Variation in Health Care Spending and Promotion of High-Value Care: Preliminary Committee Observations

      Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Care Services,Committee on Geographic Variation in Health Care Spending and Promotion of High-Value Care

      Interim Report of the Committee on Geographic Variation in Health Care Spending and Promotion of High-Value Health Care: Preliminary Committee Observations is designed to provide the committee’s preliminary observations for…

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      Variation in Health Care Spending: Target Decision Making, Not Geography

      Committee on Geographic Variation in Health Care Spending and Promotion of High-Value Care,Board on Health Care Services,Institute of Medicine

      Health care in the United States is more expensive than in other developed countries, costing $2.7 trillion in 2011, or 17.9 percent of the national gross domestic product. This book…

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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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      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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      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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      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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      Fostering Rapid Advances in Health Care: Learning from System Demonstrations

      Committee on Rapid Advance Demonstration Projects: Health Care Finance and Delivery Systems,National Academy of Sciences

      In response to a request from the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, the Institute of Medicine convened a committee to identify possible demonstration projects that might…

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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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      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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      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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      Geographic Adjustment in Medicare Payment: Phase I: Improving Accuracy

      Committee on Geographic Adjustment Factors in Medicare Payment,Board on Health Care Services,Institute of Medicine

      Medicare is the largest health insurer in the United States, providing coverage for 39 million people aged 65 and older and 8 million people with disabilities, and reaching more than…

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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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      Financing Vaccines in the 21st Century: Assuring Access and Availability

      Committee on the Evaluation of Vaccine Purchase Financing in the United States,National Academy of Sciences

      The national immunization system has achieved high levels of immunization, particularly for children. However, this system faces challenges. This book addresses these challenges by proposing strategies for assuring access to…

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      Geographic Adjustment in Medicare Payment: Phase II: Implications for Access, Quality, and Efficiency

      Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Care Services,Committee on Geographic Adjustment Factors in Medicare Payment

      Medicare, the world’s single largest health insurance program, covers more than 47 million Americans. Although it is a national program, it adjusts payments to hospitals and health care practitioners according…

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      Protecting Data Privacy in Health Services Research

      Committee on the Role of Institutional Review Boards in Health Services Research Data Privacy Protection,Division of Health Care Services,Institute of Medicine,National Academy of Sciences

      The need for quality improvement and for cost saving are driving both individual choices and health system dynamics. The health services research that we need to support informed choices depends…

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      The U.S. Oral Health Workforce in the Coming Decade: Workshop Summary

      Planning Committee for a Workshop on the Sufficiency of the U.S. Oral Health Workforce in the Coming Decade,Institute of Medicine

      Access to oral health services is a problem for all segments of the U.S. population, and especially problematic for vulnerable populations, such as rural and underserved populations. The many challenges…

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      Cancer Care for the Whole Patient: Meeting Psychosocial Health Needs

      Committee on Psychosocial Services to Cancer Patients/Families in a Community Setting

      States that cancer care often provides state-of-the-science biomedical treatment, but fails to address the psychological and social (psychosocial) problems associated with the illness. This book recommends actions that oncology providers…

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      Ovarian Cancers: Evolving Paradigms in Research and Care

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Care Services,Committee on the State of the Science in Ovarian Cancer Research

      In an era of promising advances in cancer research, there are considerable and even alarming gaps in the fundamental knowledge and understanding of ovarian cancer. Researchers now know that ovarian…

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      Rewarding Provider Performance: Aligning Incentives in Medicare

      Committee on Redesigning Health Insurance Performance Measures, Payment, and Performance Improvement Programs,National Academy of Sciences

      Addresses the topic of quality of health care in America. This book evaluates specific policy approaches within the context of improving operational framework of health care system. It offers options…

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      Perspectives on Biomarker and Surrogate Endpoint Evaluation: Discussion Forum Summary

      Committee on Qualification of Biomarkers and Surrogate Endpoints in Chronic Disease,Institute of Medicine

      Summary of a discussion forum that took place in Washington, DC on June 21-22, 2010.

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      Accounting for Social Risk Factors in Medicare Payment: Identifying Social Risk Factors

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Care Services,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Committee on Accounting for Socioeconomic Status in Medicare Payment Programs

      Recent health care payment reforms aim to improve the alignment of Medicare payment strategies with goals to improve the quality of care provided, patient experiences with health care, and health…

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      Delivering High-Quality Cancer Care: Charting a New Course for a System in Crisis

      Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Care Services,Committee on Improving the Quality of Cancer Care: Addressing the Challenges of an Aging Population

      Presents a conceptual framework for improving the quality of cancer care. This study proposes improvements to six interconnected components of care: engaged patients; an adequately staffed, trained, and coordinated workforce…

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      Evolution of Translational Omics: Lessons Learned and the Path Forward

      Committee on the Review of Omics-Based Tests for Predicting Patient Outcomes in Clinical Trials,Board on Health Care Services,Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Sciences Policy

      Technologies collectively called omics enable simultaneous measurement of an enormous number of biomolecules; for example, genomics investigates thousands of DNA sequences, and proteomics examines large numbers of proteins. Scientists are…

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      Medical Care Economic Risk: Measuring Financial Vulnerability from Spending on Medical Care

      National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Care Services,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on National Statistics

      The United States has seen major advances in medical care during the past decades, but access to care at an affordable cost is not universal. Many Americans lack health care…

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      Biomarker Tests for Molecularly Targeted Therapies: Key to Unlocking Precision Medicine

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Care Services,Committee on Policy Issues in the Clinical Development and Use of Biomarkers for Molecularly Targeted Therapies

      Every patient is unique, and the evolving field of precision medicine aims to ensure the delivery of the right treatment to the right patient at the right time. In an…

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