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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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1st Annual Crossing the Quality Chasm Summit: A Focus on Communities

Committee on the Crossing the Quality Chasm: Next Steps Toward a New Health Care System,National Academy of Sciences

In January 2004, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) hosted the 1st Annual Crossing the Quality Chasm Summit, convening a group of national and community health care leaders to pool their…

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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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Graduate Medical Education That Meets the Nation’s Health Needs

Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Care Services,Committee on the Governance and Financing of Graduate Medical Education

Today’s physician education system produces trained doctors with strong scientific underpinnings in biological and physical sciences as well as supervised practical experience in delivering care. Significant financial public support underlies…

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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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Health Professions Education: A Bridge to Quality

Committee on the Health Professions Education Summit,National Academy of Sciences

The Institute of Medicine study Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001) recommended that an interdisciplinary summit be held to further reform of health professions education in order to enhance quality and…

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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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Measuring the Risks and Causes of Premature Death: Summary of Workshops

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

Measuring the Risks and Causes of Premature Death is the summary of two workshops conducted by The Committee on Population of the National Research Council at the National Academies to…

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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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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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Future Directions for the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports

Committee on Future Directions for the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports,Institute of Medicine

As the United States devotes extensive resources to health care, evaluating how successfully the U.S. system delivers high-quality, high-value care in an equitable manner is essential. At the request of…

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Beyond the HIPAA Privacy Rule: Enhancing Privacy, Improving Health Through Research

Committee on Health Research and the Privacy of Health Information: The HIPAA Privacy Rule,Institute of Medicine

In the realm of health care, privacy protections are needed to preserve patients’ dignity and prevent possible harms. Ten years ago, to address these concerns as well as set guidelines…

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A National Cancer Clinical Trials System for the 21st Century: Reinvigorating the NCI Cooperative Group Program

Committee on Cancer Clinical Trials and the NCI Cooperative Group Program,Institute of Medicine

The National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Clinical Trials Cooperative Group Program has played a key role in developing new and improved cancer therapies. However, the program is falling short of its…

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Breast Cancer and the Environment: A Life Course Approach

Committee on Breast Cancer and the Environment: The Scientific Evidence, Research Methodology, and Future Directions,Institute of Medicine

Breast cancer remains the most common invasive cancer among women. The primary patients of breast cancer are adult women who are approaching or have reached menopause; 90 percent of new…

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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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The Dynamics of Disability: Measuring and Monitoring Disability for Social Security Programs

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

Provides analysis and recommendations in areas such as understanding the social, economic, and physical environmental factors in determining eligibility for disability benefits; developing and implementing a monitoring system to measure…

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Care without Coverage: Too Little, Too Late

Coverage Matters: Insurance and Health Care

Health Insurance is a Family Matter

A Shared Destiny: Community Effects of Uninsurance

Hidden Costs, Value Lost: Uninsurance in America

Insuring America’s Health: Principles and Recommendations

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

Retooling for an Aging America: Building the Health Care Workforce

Quality Through Collaboration: The Future of Rural Health Care

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

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

Redesigning Continuing Education in the Health Professions

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

Evaluating the HRSA Traumatic Brain Injury Program

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

Setting the Course: A Strategic Vision for Immunization

Emergency Care for Children: Growing Pains

Emergency Medical Services: At the Crossroads

Keeping Patients Safe: Transforming the Work Environment of Nurses

Hospital-Based Emergency Care: At the Breaking Point

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

1st Annual Crossing the Quality Chasm Summit: A Focus on Communities

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

Graduate Medical Education That Meets the Nation’s Health Needs

Protecting Data Privacy in Health Services Research

Health Professions Education: A Bridge to Quality

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

Measuring the Risks and Causes of Premature Death: Summary of Workshops

Ovarian Cancers: Evolving Paradigms in Research and Care

Cancer Care for the Whole Patient: Meeting Psychosocial Health Needs

Future Directions for the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports

Beyond the HIPAA Privacy Rule: Enhancing Privacy, Improving Health Through Research

A National Cancer Clinical Trials System for the 21st Century: Reinvigorating the NCI Cooperative Group Program

Breast Cancer and the Environment: A Life Course Approach

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

Evolution of Translational Omics: Lessons Learned and the Path Forward

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

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

The Dynamics of Disability: Measuring and Monitoring Disability for Social Security Programs

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