Download or read book Priority Areas for National Action written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2003-04-10 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new release in the Quality Chasm Series, Priority Areas for National Action recommends a set of 20 priority areas that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and other groups in the public and private sectors should focus on to improve the quality of health care delivered to all Americans. The priority areas selected represent the entire spectrum of health care from preventive care to end of life care. They also touch on all age groups, health care settings and health care providers. Collective action in these areas could help transform the entire health care system. In addition, the report identifies criteria and delineates a process that DHHS may adopt to determine future priority areas.
Download or read book Prioritization in Medicine written by Eckhard Nagel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-30 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gap between a rising demand for health care services on the one side and scarce resources on the other, is leading to a growing pressure on decision-making processes. Hence, prioritization in medicine has become an increasingly important issue for assuring stability of health systems and improving the capability of health care. The present volume addresses normative dimensions of methodological and theoretical approaches, the legal basis behind priority setting as well as international experiences concerning the normative framework and the process of priority setting. It also examines specific criteria for prioritization and discusses economic evaluations. Contributing authors from a broad range of scientific disciplines discuss prioritization within an international dialogue.
Download or read book Priority Setting Toolkit written by Craig Mitton and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-02-05 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work provides a guide to how economics can be used to manage scarcity of resources in health services. It outlines the principles of economics in a non-technical manner, before going on to address the issues of how to apply the principles in day to day health services management.
Download or read book Prioritization of health services written by Oregon Health Services Commission and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reasonable Rationing written by Ham, Chris and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2003-05-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health care rationing is a reality in much of the world, and priority setting is an issue of increasing importance. Choices about the use of health care budgets are inescapable and difficult. This study look at priority setting in the health services of several countries.
Download or read book Prioritization of Health Services written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Global Health Priority Setting written by Ole F. Norheim and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global health is at a crossroads. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development has come with ambitious targets for health and health services worldwide. To reach these targets, many more billions of dollars need to be spent on health. However, development assistance for health has plateaued and domestic funding on health in most countries is growing at rates too low to close the financing gap. National and international decision-makers face tough choices about how scarce health care resources should be spent. Should additional funds be spent on primary prevention of stroke, treating childhood cancer, or expanding treatment for HIV/AIDS? Should health coverage decisions take into account the effects of illness on productivity, household finances, and children's educational attainment, or just focus on health outcomes? Does age matter for priority setting or should it be ignored? Are health gains far in the future less important than gains in the present? Should higher priority be given to people who are sicker or poorer? Global Health Priority-Setting provides a framework for how to think about evidence-based priority-setting in health. Over 18 chapters, ethicists, philosophers, economists, policy-makers, and clinicians from around the world assess the state of current practice in national and global priority setting, describe new tools and methodologies to address establishing global health priorities, and tackle the most important ethical questions that decision-makers must consider in allocating health resources.
Download or read book Knowing What Works in Health Care written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2008-05-29 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is currently heightened interest in optimizing health care through the generation of new knowledge on the effectiveness of health care services. The United States must substantially strengthen its capacity for assessing evidence on what is known and not known about "what works" in health care. Even the most sophisticated clinicians and consumers struggle to learn which care is appropriate and under what circumstances. Knowing What Works in Health Care looks at the three fundamental health care issues in the United States-setting priorities for evidence assessment, assessing evidence (systematic review), and developing evidence-based clinical practice guidelines-and how each of these contributes to the end goal of effective, practical health care systems. This book provides an overall vision and roadmap for improving how the nation uses scientific evidence to identify the most effective clinical services. Knowing What Works in Health Care gives private and public sector firms, consumers, health care professionals, benefit administrators, and others the authoritative, independent information required for making essential informed health care decisions.
Download or read book Priority Setting Processes for Healthcare written by Frank Honigsbaum and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the face of the relentless rise in health costs, many countries have had to set priorities so that maximum benefit can be made of unlimited funds. This book shares the experience of those which have taken a lead in this field, and draws on models being developed in Oregon, New Zealand, The Netherlands and Sweden as well as the UK. It discusses the strengths and weaknesses of each system from which healthcare planners and managers can draw their own conclusions and apply to the situation for which they are responsible.
Download or read book Advances in Patient Safety written by Kerm Henriksen and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: v. 1. Research findings -- v. 2. Concepts and methodology -- v. 3. Implementation issues -- v. 4. Programs, tools and products.
Download or read book Prioritization of Health Services written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document includes the Oregon Health Services Commission's recommendations to the Governor and 72nd Oregon Legislative Assembly. These recommendations are resources for prioritizing health services to restructure the Oregon Health Plan's progress and include adopting the Prioritized List of Health Services (dated April 29, 2003), which incorporate the severity guidelines, coding clarifications, effectiveness of services, and statements of intent that will delineate services that are not as important as others in determining the benefit package under the Oregon Health Plan and be used as the basis for defining benefits for both the mandatory Medicaid populations and any optional populations that can be covered.
Download or read book Prioritization of Health Services written by Oregon Health Services Commission and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prioritization of Health Services written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An increasing number of Oregonians are not receiving adequate health care. In 1989, the Oregon legislature passed a comprehensive program to address the problem. The goal of the Oregon Plan is good health. The cornerstone of the Oregon Plan is a publicly defined, standard package of effective health care offered to all Oregonians at an affordable price. Oregon acknowledges that all medical procedures are not equally valuable or effective. Therefore, in order to define an affordable, quality health care package, the state has to determine first which services are most beneficial. The Legislature created the Health Services Commission to rank all health care services according to their importance to the entire population. The commissioners produced a list of 709 items defined in condition/treatment pairs. They said a treatment's effectiveness is determined only when linked to a condition. They then assigned the pairs to 17 categories of care. After ordering the categories, Commissioners then ranked the pairs within the categories. Commissioners say every person is entitled to a diagnosis as part of the Standard Benefit Package. Once that diagnosis is made, then coverage for a person's treatment is determined by its position on the list. Preventive care is ranked high on the list, especially for children. Comfort care ranks high and includes medications and services to reduce pain, home health and hospice care for the terminally ill. Independent actuaries determined the costs of providing the services to the Medicaid population.
Download or read book Rationing in Health Care written by Iestyn Williams and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clearly written and well structured textbook, providing an introduction to decision making and priority setting, this title brings together theories, practice and evidence from a wide range of disciplines.
Download or read book Prioritization of Health Services written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document includes the Oregon Health Services Commission's recommendations to the Governor and 74th Oregon Legislative Assembly. These recommendations include adopting the Prioritized List of Health Services for calender years 2008-09, adopting the incorporated practice guidelines therein, use the Prioritized list to delineate services that are not as effective as others to determine the benefit package under the Oregon Health Plan, and consider mechanisms for increasing enrollment in OHP Standard to previous levels, including the original goal of the Oregon Health Plan, universal coverage through broad health care reform.
Download or read book Ranking Vaccines written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a number of diseases emerge or reemerge thus stimulating new vaccine development opportunities to help prevent those diseases, it can be especially difficult for decision makers to know where to invest their limited resources. Therefore, it is increasingly important for decision makers to have the tools that can assist and inform their vaccine prioritization efforts. In this first phase report, the IOM offers a framework and proof of concept to account for various factors influencing vaccine prioritization-demographic, economic, health, scientific, business, programmatic, social, policy factors and public concerns. Ranking Vaccines: A Prioritization Framework describes a decision-support model and the blueprint of a software-called Strategic Multi-Attribute Ranking Tool for Vaccines or SMART Vaccines. SMART Vaccines should be of help to decision makers. SMART Vaccines Beta is not available for public use, but SMART Vaccines 1.0 is expected to be released at the end of the second phase of this study, when it will be fully operational and capable of guiding discussions about prioritizing the development and introduction of new vaccines.
Download or read book A Critique of Oregon s Prioritization of Health Services Under Medicaid written by Jeffrey Dale Rawnsley and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
