Assessing health care reform - Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Assessing Health Care Reform Proposals; Field, Marilyn J. (Marilyn Jane); Lohr, Kathleen N., 1941-; Yordy, Karl D. (Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1993)
Assessing Health Care Reform -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preamble -- Extending Access to Health Care -- BARRIERS TO ACCESS -- FINANCIAL ACCESS -- Principles -- Practical Implications -- Assessing Access Provisions of Reform Proposals -- MORE THAN FINANCIAL ACCESS -- Containing Health Care Costs -- COSTS IN CONTEXT -- ELEMENTS OF A STRATEGY -- Specific Elements -- Elements Not Mentioned -- MOVING FROM GENERAL TO SPECIFIC POLICIES -- Administrative Costs-and Benefits -- Tax Caps and Geographic Variations in Health Care Costs -- Patient Cost Sharing and Special Problems -- Core and Supplemental Benefits -- Risk Selection versus Cost Containment -- Assuring the Quality of Care -- DEFINING QUALITY -- QUALIFY MEASUREMENT AND IMPROVEMENT -- Major Targets -- Criteria for a Strategy -- Individual and System Perspectives -- Roles and Responsibilities -- System Problems -- CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINES -- SPECIFIC IMPLICATIONS -- Financing Reform -- Improving the Infrastructure for Effective Change -- GOVERNANCE AND ADMINISTRATION -- HUMAN AND PHYSICAL CAPITAL -- Human Capital -- Physical Capital -- KNOWLEDGE DEVELOPMENT -- Databases, Surveys, and Information Technologies -- Privacy and Confidentiality of Sensitive Personal Health Data -- Health Services, Outcomes, and Effectiveness Research -- Technology Assessment -- PUBLIC HEALTH POLICIES AND PROGRAMS -- OTHER INFRASTRUCTURE ISSUES -- Programs for Special Populations -- Tort Reform -- Public/Consumer Education -- Conclusion -- References.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 73-76).
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