New England Journal of Medicine · 1993 · 243 citations · 20 references
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The United States spends more on health care than other industrialized nations, much of which is wasted on unproven or ineffective diagnosis and therapy, making outcomes research a key focus for health care reform. The study aims to show that outcomes research can address quality and cost issues by shaping policy positions, payment rules, and practice guidelines. The authors argue that outcomes research informs policy and payment rules, potentially resolving quality and cost problems in health care. No additional metadata.
It has become a truism that not only does the United States spend more money on health care than do other industrialized nations, but also a substantial portion of this sum is wasted on unproved or ineffective diagnosis and therapy. Not surprisingly, then, outcomes research -- that is, the rigorous determination of what works in medical care and what does not -- figures prominently in proposals for health care reform. Outcomes research, by informing the content of policy positions, payment rules, and practice guidelines, presumably both solves the problems of quality and cost that beset the health care system and . . .
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