Tracking medicine: a researcher's quest to understand health care
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Main Author: Wennberg, John E. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Oxford University Press c2010
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-308) and index
In health care, geography is destiny -- The Vermont experience -- Tonsillectomy and medical opinion -- Interpreting the pattern of surgical variation -- Understanding the market for preference-sensitive surgery -- Learning what works and what patients want -- The birth and near death of comparative effectiveness research -- Understanding supply-sensitive care -- Chronic illness and practice variation -- Is more better? -- Are America's "best hospitals" really the best? -- Ten top reasons why we need reform the way we manage chronic illness -- Promoting organized care and reducing overuse -- Establishing informed patient choice as a standard of care -- Six ways to control cost, accelerate reform, and save the economy -- The challenge of unwarranted variation
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xix, 319 p.)
ISBN:0199780242
9780199780242

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