Registries for Evaluating Patient Outcomes
Registries for Evaluating Patient Outcomes

Author: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality/AHRQ

Publisher: Government Printing Office

Published: 2014-04-01

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1587634333

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This User’s Guide is intended to support the design, implementation, analysis, interpretation, and quality evaluation of registries created to increase understanding of patient outcomes. For the purposes of this guide, a patient registry is an organized system that uses observational study methods to collect uniform data (clinical and other) to evaluate specified outcomes for a population defined by a particular disease, condition, or exposure, and that serves one or more predetermined scientific, clinical, or policy purposes. A registry database is a file (or files) derived from the registry. Although registries can serve many purposes, this guide focuses on registries created for one or more of the following purposes: to describe the natural history of disease, to determine clinical effectiveness or cost-effectiveness of health care products and services, to measure or monitor safety and harm, and/or to measure quality of care. Registries are classified according to how their populations are defined. For example, product registries include patients who have been exposed to biopharmaceutical products or medical devices. Health services registries consist of patients who have had a common procedure, clinical encounter, or hospitalization. Disease or condition registries are defined by patients having the same diagnosis, such as cystic fibrosis or heart failure. The User’s Guide was created by researchers affiliated with AHRQ’s Effective Health Care Program, particularly those who participated in AHRQ’s DEcIDE (Developing Evidence to Inform Decisions About Effectiveness) program. Chapters were subject to multiple internal and external independent reviews.

Which Country Has the World's Best Health Care?
Which Country Has the World's Best Health Care?

Author: Ezekiel J. Emanuel

Publisher: PublicAffairs

Published: 2020-06-16

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 1541797728

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The preeminent doctor and bioethicist Ezekiel Emanuel is repeatedly asked one question: Which country has the best healthcare? He set off to find an answer. The US spends more than any other nation, nearly $4 trillion, on healthcare. Yet, for all that expense, the US is not ranked #1 -- not even close. In Which Country Has the World's Best Healthcare? Ezekiel Emanuel profiles eleven of the world's healthcare systems in pursuit of the best or at least where excellence can be found. Using a unique comparative structure, the book allows healthcare professionals, patients, and policymakers alike to know which systems perform well, and why, and which face endemic problems. From Taiwan to Germany, Australia to Switzerland, the most inventive healthcare providers tackle a global set of challenges -- in pursuit of the best healthcare in the world.

Code of Federal Regulations, Title 42, Public Health, Pt. 414-429, Revised as of October 1, . 2017
Code of Federal Regulations, Title 42, Public Health, Pt. 414-429, Revised as of October 1, . 2017

Author: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (U S

Publisher: Office of the Federal Register

Published: 2018-01-11

Total Pages: 976

ISBN-13: 9780160942976

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The Code of Federal Regulations is a codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the Executive departments and agencies of the United States Federal Government. This print ISBN is the official U.S. Federal Government edition. 2 CFR Parts 414-429 covers federal regulations, rules, and processes for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services within the United States Department of Health and Human Services. This print volume part of the annual2017 print subscription covers topics such as payment for Part B Medical and other health services, ambulatory surgical services, hospice care, Medicare Advantage Program, conditions for Medicare payment, Medicare contracting and more. ​Medicare beneficiaries and participants, internal medicine and geriatric physicians, health practitioners, hospice care facilities and home services personnel and volunteers may be interested in this volume. Additionally, students pursuing coursework in personal and community health, health science terminology, patient care, primary care, speech pathology, and occupational therapy or rehabilitation for elder populations. Related products: Aging resources collection is available here: http://ttps://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/aging Other products produced by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) are available here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/agency/centers-medicare-and-medicaid-services-cms Your Guide to Choosing a Nursing Home or Other Long-Term Services & Supports is available here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/your-guide-choosing-nursing-home-or-other-long-term-services-supports Preservation of Access to Care for Medicare Beneficiaries and Pension Relief Act of 2010, Public Law 111-192 available here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/preservation-access-care-medicare-beneficiaries-and-pension-relief-act-2010-public-law-111 Health, United States, 2016, With Chartbook on Long-Term Trends in Health and Health United States 2016 in Brief can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/health-united-states-2016-chartbook-long-term-trends-health-and-health-united-states-2016