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Valuing Health Care: Improving Productivity and Quality

Posted on May 14, 2012 by

This report addresses a deceptively simple question: How can the productivity of American health care be substantially improved? Productivity, in lay terms, is the ratio of output to inputs. A more colloquial rendition of the question might be: how can we get a lot more bang for our heath care buck? Continue reading →

Posted in Cost, Health Care Policy, Patient Involvement, SDM Implementation | Tagged cost-effective medical care, Dartmouth Atlas, empowering patients, EMR, health care, health care innovation, informed consent, Kauffman Foundation, patients, shared decision making | Permalink

A Multicentre Randomised Controlled Trial Assessing the Costs and Benefits of Using Structured Information and Analysis of Women's Preferences in the Management of Menorrhagia

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Objectives To develop decision aids to provide evidence-based information and formal preference elicitation for women with menorrhagia; and to evaluate their effects on patient outcomes, patient management and cost effectiveness. Continue reading →