Health outcomes for older people : questions for the coming decade / Committee to Develop an Agenda for Health Outcomes Research for Elderly People, Jill C. Feasley, editor, Division of Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee to Develop an Agenda for Health Outcomes Research for Elderly People.

Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Division of Health Care Services.

Feasley, Jill C., 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Older people--Services for--United States.

Older people.

Older people--Medical care--United States.

Older people--Health and hygiene--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (79 p.)

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1996.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

""Health Outcomes for Older People: Questions for the Coming Decade""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Summary""; ""OVERVIEW""; ""RECOMMENDATIONS: RESEARCH ISSUES""; ""Health-Related Quality of Life""; ""Satisfaction with Care""; ""“Toolbox� of Outcomes Measures and a Core Set of Outcomes Measures""; ""Practice Patterns and Interventions and Their Effect on Outcomes""; ""Involvement in Care Decisionmaking""; ""Education and Dissemination of Outcomes Information""; ""Financing Systems""; ""Service Delivery and Utilization""; ""Transitions""

""Quality Assessment and Improvement""""RECOMMENDATIONS: RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS""; ""Workforce Issues""; ""Conduct of Research""; ""Data Quality""; ""Data Management Systems""; ""Methodological and Analytic Issues""; ""Introduction and Background""; ""HEALTH OUTCOMES RESEARCH FOR OLDER PEOPLE""; ""An Expanding Older Population""; ""Changing Health Care Environment""; ""Field of Health Outcomes Research""; ""ORIGINS OF THIS REPORT AND STUDY APPROACH""; ""AUDIENCE FOR THIS REPORT""; ""ORGANIZATION OF THIS REPORT""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Recommendations: Research Issues""

""HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE""""Rationale""; ""Background""; ""Functional Health Status""; ""Examples of Needed Research""; ""SATISFACTION WITH CARE""; ""Rationale""; ""Background""; ""Measuring Satisfaction""; ""Interpreting Satisfaction""; ""Examples of Needed Research""; ""“TOOLBOX� OF OUTCOMES MEASURES AND A CORE SET OF OUTCOMES MEASURES""; ""Rationale""; ""Background""; ""Core Set of Outcomes Measures""; ""Examples of Needed Research""; ""PRACTICE PATTERNS AND INTERVENTIONS AND THEIR EFFECT ON OUTCOMES""; ""Rationale""; ""Background""; ""Advance Care Planning""

""Clinical Practice Guidelines, Pathways, and Other Strategies""""Interdisciplinary Intervention Teams""; ""Examples of Needed Research""; ""INVOLVEMENT IN CARE DECISIONMAKING""; ""Rationale""; ""Background""; ""Examples of Needed Research""; ""EDUCATION AND DISSEMINATION OF OUTCOMES INFORMATION""; ""Rationale""; ""Background""; ""Examples of Needed Research""; ""FINANCING SYSTEMS""; ""Rationale""; ""Background""; ""Risk Adjustment""; ""Competitive Pricing""; ""Use of Outcomes Measures to Structure Incentives""; ""Examples of Needed Research""; ""SERVICE DELIVERY AND UTILIZATION""

""Rationale""""Background""; ""Examples of Needed Research""; ""TRANSITIONS""; ""Rationale""; ""Background""; ""Examples of Needed Research""; ""QUALITY ASSESSMENT AND IMPROVEMENT""; ""Rationale""; ""Background""; ""Examples of Needed Research""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Recommendations: Research Infrastructure Needs""; ""WORKFORCE ISSUES""; ""Rationale""; ""Background""; ""Examples of Support Needed""; ""CONDUCT OF RESEARCH""; ""Rationale""; ""Background""; ""Example of Support Needed""; ""DATA QUALITY""; ""Rationale""; ""Background""; ""Example of Needed Research""; ""DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS""

""Rationale""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-280-19171-6

9786610191710

0-309-58901-0

0-585-14421-4