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Tracking medicine : a researcher's quest to understand health care / John E. Wennberg.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wennberg, John E.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Outcome assessment (Medical care)--United States.
- Outcome assessment (Medical care).
- Medicine, Comparative.
- United States.
- Medicine, Comparative--United States.
- Regional medical programs--United States.
- Regional medical programs.
- Health care reform--United States.
- Health care reform.
- Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care.
- Practice Patterns, Physicians'.
- Health Care Reform.
- Health Resources.
- Health Services Accessibility.
- Medical Subjects:
- Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care.
- United States.
- Practice Patterns, Physicians'.
- Health Care Reform.
- Health Resources.
- Health Services Accessibility.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 319 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Contents:
- 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 to reform the way we manage chronic illness
- Promoting organized care and reducing overuse
- Establishing shared decision making and informed patient choice
- Six ways to control costs, and accelerate health care reform
- The challenge of practice variations.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199731787
- 0199731780
- OCLC:
- 461256249
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