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Evaluating the Feasibility of Developing National Outcomes Data Bases to Assist Patients with Making Treatment Decisions : Data Bases to Assist Patients Wtih Making Treatment Decisions
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Damberg, Cheryl.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Treatment Outcome.
- Databases as Topic.
- Patient Participation.
- Decision Making.
- United States.
- Medical Subjects:
- Treatment Outcome.
- Databases as Topic.
- Patient Participation.
- Decision Making.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (138 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Monica : RAND Corporation, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This report examines issues surrounding the establishment of a national patient outcomes database that would be used by patients and providers to make more informed treatment decisions. It focuses on prostate cancer and surgery for osteoarthritis. The authors conclude that such longitudinal databases would be both desirable and feasible but would require substantial resources.
- Contents:
- Preliminaries; INTRODUCTION; A FRAMEWORK FOR ASSESSING THE FEASIBILITY OF ESTABLISHING NATIONAL OUTCOMES DATA BASES; SHARED DECISION-MAKING: A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE; PROSTATE CANCER DATA BASE FEASIBILITY ASSESSMENT; OSTEOARTHRITIS DATA BASE FEASIBILITY ASSESSMENT; CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS; Draft Questions-Prostate Cancer Consultative Meeting; ; REFERENCES
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780833057181
- 0833057189
- 9781598753585
- 1598753584
- OCLC:
- 171567077
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