Optimizing Health: Improving the Value of Healthcare Delivery

Are our patients getting what they want for their health care money? Should we change anything to give our patients more of what they want? Do we even know what they want? When service delivery, patient expectations, and the bottom line are in conflict, quality generally suffers. But such conflict c...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Porzsolt, Franz (Editor), Kaplan, Robert M. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 2006, 2006
Edition:1st ed. 2006
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Clinical Research and Outcomes Research: Common Criteria and Differences
  • Are the Results of Randomized Trials Influenced by Preference Effects? Part I. Findings from a Systematic Review
  • Are the Results of Randomized Trials Influenced by Preference Effects? Part II. Why Current Studies Often Fail to Answer this Question
  • Conclusion and Outlook
  • Suggested Changes in Practice, Research, and Systems: Clinical Economics Point of View
  • Framework of CLINECS
  • “CLINECS”: Strategy and Tactics to Provide Evidence of the Usefulness of Health Care Services from the Patient's Perspective (Value for Patients)
  • Systems View of Health Care
  • Ethics and Philosophy
  • Seeking Justice in Health Care
  • Evidence-Based Medicine and Ethics: Desired and Undesired Effects of Screening
  • Paradoxes of Medical Progress: Abandoned Patients, Physicians, and Nurses
  • Theory Behind the Bridge Principles
  • Psychology
  • How to Measure Quality of Life
  • New Instrument to Describe Indicators of Well-Being in Old Old Patients with Severe Dementia: Vienna List
  • Patient Empowerment: Increased Compliance or Total Transformation?
  • Shared Decision Making in Medicine
  • Clinical Practice
  • Overdiagnosis and Pseudodisease: Too Much of a “Good Thing”?
  • Palliative Medicine Today: Evidence and Culture
  • Medical Geography–Who Gets the Goods? More May Not Be Better
  • Cancer Survival in Europe and the United States
  • Patient Safety: What Does It Mean in the United States?
  • Increasing Safety by Implementing Optimized Team Interaction: Experience from the Aviation Industry
  • Evidence-Based Information Technology: Concept for Rational Information Processing in the Health Care System
  • Economically Oriented Analyses
  • Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: Measuring the Value of Health Care Services
  • Cost-Effectiveness of Lung Volume Reduction Surgery
  • Health Economic Evaluation of Adjuvant Breast Cancer Treatment
  • Aims and Value of Screening: Is Perceived Safety a Value for Which to Pay?
  • Clinical Epidemiology
  • Evidence-Based Health Care Seen From Four Points of View
  • Efficacy, Effectiveness, and Efficiency of Diagnostic Technology
  • Reduced Mammographic Screening May Explain Declines in Breast Carcinoma Among Older Women
  • “Fading ofReported Effectiveness” Bias: Longitudinal Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials