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Vital Signs : Core Metrics for Health and Health Care Progress by Institute of Medicine, Committee on Core Metrics for Better Health at Lower Cost, J. Michael McGinnis, Elizabeth Malphrus, David Blumenthal, Elizabeth Robinson, J. Michael McGinniss is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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<p>Thousands of measures are in use today to assess health and health care in the United States. Although many of these measures provide useful information, their usefulness in either gauging or guiding performance improvement in health and health care is seriously limited by their sheer number, as well as their lack of consistency, compatibility, reliability, focus, and organization. To achieve better health at lower cost, all stakeholders - including health professionals, payers, policy makers, and members of the public - must be alert to what matters most. What are the core measures that will yield the clearest understanding and focus on better health and well-being for Americans?</p> <p><i>Vital Signs</i> explores the most important issues - healthier people, better quality care, affordable care, and engaged individuals and communities - and specifies a streamlined set of 15 core measures. These measures, if standardized and applied at national, state, local, and institutional levels across the country, will transform the effectiveness, efficiency, and burden of health measurement and help accelerate focus and progress on our highest health priorities. <i>Vital Signs</i> also d

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Author

Institute of Medicine, Committee on Core Metrics for Better Health at Lower Cost, J. Michael McGinnis, Elizabeth Malphrus, David Blumenthal, Elizabeth Robinson, J. Michael McGinniss

Publisher

The National Academies Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780309324977

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, Economics, Social Science