Increased access to palliative care and hospice services: opportunities to improve value in health care [0.03%]
提高缓和医疗和临终关怀的机会以提升医疗服务的价值
Diane E Meier
Diane E Meier
Context: A small proportion of patients with serious illness or multiple chronic conditions account for the majority of health care spending. Despite the high cost, evidence demonstrates that these patients receive health...
Thomas G McGuire,Joseph P Newhouse,Anna D Sinaiko
Thomas G McGuire
Context: Twenty-five years ago, private insurance plans were introduced into the Medicare program with the stated dual aims of (1) giving beneficiaries a choice of health insurance plans beyond the fee-for-service Medicar...
Brian Hutchison,Jean-Frederic Levesque,Erin Strumpf et al.
Brian Hutchison et al.
Context: During the 1980s and 1990s, innovations in the organization, funding, and delivery of primary health care in Canada were at the periphery of the system rather than at its core. In the early 2000s, a new policy en...
How health care organizations are using data on patients' race and ethnicity to improve quality of care [0.03%]
医疗机构如何利用患者种族和族裔数据来提高护理质量
Ruth Thorlby,Selena Jorgensen,Bruce Siegel et al.
Ruth Thorlby et al.
Context: Racial and ethnic disparities in the quality of health care are well documented in the U.S. health care system. Reducing these disparities requires action by health care organizations. Collecting accurate data fr...
Assessing the evaluability of complex public health interventions: five questions for researchers, funders, and policymakers [0.03%]
如何评估复杂公共卫生活的可评性：研究者、资助机构和政策制定者的五个问题
David Ogilvie,Steven Cummins,Mark Petticrew et al.
David Ogilvie et al.
Context: Evidence to support government programs to improve public health often is weak. Recognition of this "knowledge gap" has led to calls for more and better evaluation, but decisions about priorities for evaluation a...
Explaining Michigan: developing an ex post theory of a quality improvement program [0.03%]
解释密歇根州的事件：质量改进项目的事后理论的发展
Mary Dixon-Woods,Charles L Bosk,Emma Louise Aveling et al.
Mary Dixon-Woods et al.
Context: Understanding how and why programs work-not simply whether they work-is crucial. Good theory is indispensable to advancing the science of improvement. We argue for the usefulness of ex post theorization of progra...
Maximizing the impact of systematic reviews in health care decision making: a systematic scoping review of knowledge-translation resources [0.03%]
最大化系统综述在卫生保健决策中的作用：知识转化资源的系统性评价
Duncan Chambers,Paul M Wilson,Carl A Thompson et al.
Duncan Chambers et al.
Context: Barriers to the use of systematic reviews by policymakers may be overcome by resources that adapt and present the findings in formats more directly tailored to their needs. We performed a systematic scoping revie...
Austin B Frakt
Austin B Frakt
Context: Hospital cost shifting--charging private payers more in response to shortfalls in public payments--has long been part of the debate over health care policy. Despite the abundance of theoretical and empirical lite...
Expansion of coverage under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and primary care utilization [0.03%]
《患者保护与平价医疗法案》的实施对初级保健利用的影响
Adam N Hofer,Jean Marie Abraham,Ira Moscovice
Adam N Hofer
Context: Provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA) expand Medicaid to all individuals in families earning less than 133 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL) and make available subs...
Ateev Mehrotra,Christopher B Forrest,Caroline Y Lin
Ateev Mehrotra
Context: In the United States, more than a third of patients are referred to a specialist each year, and specialist visits constitute more than half of outpatient visits. Despite the frequency of referrals and the importa...