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Board on Health Care Services & Forum on the Science of Health Care Quality Improvement and Implementation: Advancing Quality Improvement Research
The Institute of Medicine’s Forum on the Science of Health Care Quality Improvement and Implementation held a workshop on January 16, 2007, in Washington, DC. The workshop had its roots in an earlier …
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Board on Health Care Services & Forum on the Science of Health Care Quality Improvement and Implementation: State of Quality Improvement and Implementation Research
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) workshop "The Conduct of Health Care Quality Improvement and Implementation Research" was held on May 24-25, 2007, in Irvine, CA. The purpose of this worksho …
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Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Psychosocial Services to Cancer Patients: Cancer Care for the Whole Patient
Cancer care today often provides state-of-the-science biomedical treatment, but fails to address the psychological and social (psychosocial) problems associated with the illness. This failure can com …
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Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Reviewing Evidence to Identify Highly Effective Clinical Services: Knowing What Works in Health Care
There is currently heightened interest in optimizing health care through the generation of new knowledge on the effectiveness of health care services. The United States must substantially strengthen …
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€39.31
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on the Future Health Care Workforce for Older Americans: Retooling for an Aging America
As the first of the nations 78 million baby boomers begin reaching age 65 in 2011, they will face a health care workforce that is too small and woefully unprepared to meet their specific health needs …
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Board on Health Care Services & Forum on the Science of Health Care Quality Improvement and Implementation: Creating a Business Case for Quality Improvement Research
Creating a Business Case for Quality Improvement Research focuses on issues related to improving the science supporting health care quality and eliminating communication barriers that prevent advance …
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Board on Health Care Services & Board on Health Sciences Policy: Beyond the HIPAA Privacy Rule
In the realm of health care, privacy protections are needed to preserve patients’ dignity and prevent possible harms. Ten years ago, to address these concerns as well as set guidelines for ethical he …
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€42.47
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice: Toward Health Equity and Patient-Centeredness
To receive the greatest value for health care, it is important to focus on issues of quality and disparity, and the ability of individuals to make appropriate decisions based on basic health knowledg …
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€28.31
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Health Insurance Status and Its Consequences: America’s Uninsured Crisis
When policy makers and researchers consider potential solutions to the crisis of uninsurance in the United States, the question of whether health insurance matters to health is often an issue. This q …
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Board on Health Care Services & Committee on the Future Health Care Workforce for Older Americans: Retooling for an Aging America
As the first of the nations 78 million baby boomers begin reaching age 65 in 2011, they will face a health care workforce that is too small and woefully unprepared to meet their specific health needs …
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Board on Health Care Services & Committee on the Consequences of Uninsurance: Care Without Coverage
Many Americans believe that people who lack health insurance somehow get the care they really need. Care Without Coverage examines the real consequences for adults who lack health insurance. The stud …
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Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Identifying Priority Areas for Quality Improvement: Priority Areas for National Action
A new release in the Quality Chasm Series, Priority Areas for National Action recommends a set of 20 priority areas that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and other groups in the publi …
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Board on Health Care Services & Committee on the Health Professions Education Summit: Health Professions Education
The Institute of Medicine study Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001) recommended that an interdisciplinary summit be held to further reform of health professions education in order to enhance quality an …
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Board on Health Care Services & Committee on the Consequences of Uninsurance: Hidden Costs, Value Lost
Hidden Cost, Value Lost, the fifth of a series of six books on the consequences of uninsurance in the United States, illustrates some of the economic and social losses to the country of maintaining s …
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Board on Health Care Services & Committee on the Evaluation of Vaccine Purchase Financing in the United States: Financing Vaccines in the 21st Century
The national immunization system has achieved high levels of immunization, particularly for children. However, this system faces difficult challenges for the future. Significant disparities remain in …
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Board on Health Care Services & Committee on the Work Environment for Nurses and Patient Safety: Keeping Patients Safe
Building on the revolutionary Institute of Medicine reports To Err is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm, Keeping Patients Safe lays out guidelines for improving patient safety by changing nurses’ …
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Board on Health Care Services & Committee on the Crossing the Quality Chasm: Next Steps Toward a New Health Care System: 1st Annual Crossing the Quality Chasm Summit
In January 2004, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) hosted the 1st Annual Crossing the Quality Chasm Summit, convening a group of national and community health care leaders to pool their knowledge and r …
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Board on Health Care Services & Committee on the Future of Rural Health Care: Quality Through Collaboration
Building on the innovative Institute of Medicine reports To Err Is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm, Quality Through Collaboration: The Future of Rural Health offers a strategy to address the qua …
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Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Crossing the Quality Chasm: Adaptation to Mental Health and Addictive Disorders: Improving the Quality of Health Care for Mental and Substance-Use Conditions
Each year, more than 33 million Americans receive health care for mental or substanceuse conditions, or both. Together, mental and substanceuse illnesses are the leading cause of death and disability …
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Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Medicare’s Quality Improvement Organization Program
Medicare’s Quality Improvement Organization Program is the second book inthe new Pathways to Quality Health Care series. Focusing on performanceimprovement, it considers the history, role, and effect …
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Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Identifying and Preventing Medication Errors: Preventing Medication Errors
In 1996 the Institute of Medicine launched the Quality Chasm Series, aseries of reports focused on assessing and improving the nation’s quality ofhealth care. Preventing Medication Errors is the newe …
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Board on Health Care Services & Committee on the Future of Emergency Care in the United States Health System: Emergency Care for Children
Children represent a special challenge for emergency care providers, because they have unique medical needs in comparison to adults. For decades, policy makers and providers have recognized the speci …
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Board on Health Care Services & Committee on the Future of Emergency Care in the United States Health System: Hospital-Based Emergency Care
Today our emergency care system faces an epidemic of crowded emergency departments, patients boarding in hallways waiting to be admitted, and daily ambulance diversions. Hospital-Based Emergency Care …
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Board on Health Care Services & Committee on the Future of Emergency Care in the United States Health System: Emergency Medical Services
Emergency Medical Services (EMS) is a critical component of our nations emergency and trauma care system, providing response and medical transport to millions of sick and injured Americans each year. …
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Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Psychosocial Services to Cancer Patients: Cancer Care for the Whole Patient
Cancer care today often provides state-of-the-science biomedical treatment, but fails to address the psychological and social (psychosocial) problems associated with the illness. This failure can com …
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Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Reviewing Evidence to Identify Highly Effective Clinical Services: Knowing What Works in Health Care
There is currently heightened interest in optimizing health care through the generation of new knowledge on the effectiveness of health care services. The United States must substantially strengthen …
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Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Assessing and Improving Value in Cancer Care
Unlike many other areas in health care, the practice of oncology presents unique challenges that make assessing and improving value especially complex. First, patients and professionals feel a well-j …
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Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Comparative Effectiveness Research Prioritization: Initial National Priorities for Comparative Effectiveness Research
Clinical research presents health care providers with information on the natural history and clinical presentations of disease as well as diagnostic and treatment options. In today’s healthcare syste …
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Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: U.S. Oral Health Workforce in the Coming Decade
Access to oral health services is a problem for all segments of the U.S. population, and especially problematic for vulnerable populations, such as rural and underserved populations. The many challen …
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€39.34
Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data
The goal of eliminating disparities in health care in the United States remains elusive. Even as quality improves on specific measures, disparities often persist. Addressing these disparities must be …
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Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Planning a Continuing Health Care Professional Education Institute: Redesigning Continuing Education in the Health Professions
Today in the United States, the professional health workforce is not consistently prepared to provide high quality health care and assure patient safety, even as the nation spends more per capita on …
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€60.63
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Health Insurance Status and Its Consequences: America’s Uninsured Crisis
When policy makers and researchers consider potential solutions to the crisis of uninsurance in the United States, the question of whether health insurance matters to health is often an issue. This q …
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€62.47
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Health Sciences Policy: Beyond the HIPAA Privacy Rule
In the realm of health care, privacy protections are needed to preserve patients’ dignity and prevent possible harms. Ten years ago, to address these concerns as well as set guidelines for ethical he …
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Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: National Emergency Care Enterprise
In 2006, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released a series of three books on the Future of Emergency Care in the United States Health System. These reports contained recommendations that called on th …
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Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Policy Issues in the Development of Personalized Medicine in Oncology
One of the challenges in treating cancer is the disease’s complexity and variation among patients. Cancer manifests differently in each patient, so treatments that are effective in one patient may no …
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€21.12
Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Assessing and Improving Value in Cancer Care
Unlike many other areas in health care, the practice of oncology presents unique challenges that make assessing and improving value especially complex. First, patients and professionals feel a well-j …
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€53.25
Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: U.S. Oral Health Workforce in the Coming Decade
Access to oral health services is a problem for all segments of the U.S. population, and especially problematic for vulnerable populations, such as rural and underserved populations. The many challen …
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€56.62
Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: National Emergency Care Enterprise
In 2006, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released a series of three books on the Future of Emergency Care in the United States Health System. These reports contained recommendations that called on th …
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€45.88
Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data
The goal of eliminating disparities in health care in the United States remains elusive. Even as quality improves on specific measures, disparities often persist. Addressing these disparities must be …
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€70.62
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Future Directions for the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports: Future Directions for the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports
As the United States devotes extensive resources to health care, evaluating how successfully the U.S. system delivers high-quality, high-value care in an equitable manner is essential. At the request …
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Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Foundation for Evidence-Driven Practice
The IOM’s National Cancer Policy Forum held a workshop October 5-6, 2009, to examine how to apply the concept of a ‘rapid learning health system’ to the problem of cancer. This document summarizes th …
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Board on Health Care Services & Board on Health Sciences Policy: Evaluation of Biomarkers and Surrogate Endpoints in Chronic Disease
Many people naturally assume that the claims made for foods and nutritional supplements have the same degree of scientific grounding as those for medication, but that is not always the case. The IOM …
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Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Planning a Continuing Health Care Professional Education Institute: Redesigning Continuing Education in the Health Professions
Today in the United States, the professional health workforce is not consistently prepared to provide high quality health care and assure patient safety, even as the nation spends more per capita on …
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Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Policy Issues in the Development of Personalized Medicine in Oncology
One of the challenges in treating cancer is the disease’s complexity and variation among patients. Cancer manifests differently in each patient, so treatments that are effective in one patient may no …
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Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Regionalizing Emergency Care
During medical emergencies, hospital staff and emergency medical services (EMS) providers, can face barriers in delivering the fastest and best possible care. Overcrowded emergency rooms cannot care …
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Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Cancer Clinical Trials and the NCI Cooperative Group Program: National Cancer Clinical Trials System for the 21st Century
The National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Clinical Trials Cooperative Group Program has played a key role in developing new and improved cancer therapies. However, the program is falling short of its pot …
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Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Regionalizing Emergency Care
During medical emergencies, hospital staff and emergency medical services (EMS) providers, can face barriers in delivering the fastest and best possible care. Overcrowded emergency rooms cannot care …
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Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Extending the Spectrum of Precompetitive Collaboration in Oncology Research
Despite spending more time and money in developing novel therapeutics, the success rate for new pharmacologic treatments has been poor. Although the research and development expenditures have grown 1 …
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Board on Health Care Services & Board on Health Sciences Policy: Evaluation of Biomarkers and Surrogate Endpoints in Chronic Disease
Many people naturally assume that the claims made for foods and nutritional supplements have the same degree of scientific grounding as those for medication, but that is not always the case. The IOM …
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Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Foundation for Evidence-Driven Practice
The IOM’s National Cancer Policy Forum held a workshop October 5-6, 2009, to examine how to apply the concept of a ‘rapid learning health system’ to the problem of cancer. This document summarizes th …
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€45.21
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Cancer Clinical Trials and the NCI Cooperative Group Program: National Cancer Clinical Trials System for the 21st Century
The National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Clinical Trials Cooperative Group Program has played a key role in developing new and improved cancer therapies. However, the program is falling short of its pot …
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€89.95
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Future Directions for the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports: Future Directions for the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports
As the United States devotes extensive resources to health care, evaluating how successfully the U.S. system delivers high-quality, high-value care in an equitable manner is essential. At the request …
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€83.64
Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Extending the Spectrum of Precompetitive Collaboration in Oncology Research
Despite spending more time and money in developing novel therapeutics, the success rate for new pharmacologic treatments has been poor. Although the research and development expenditures have grown 1 …
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€42.52
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Health Sciences Policy: Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing
Today, scores of companies, primarily in the United States and Europe, are offering whole genome scanning services directly to the public. The proliferation of these companies and the services they o …
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Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Nanotechnology and Oncology
One way scientists are working to overcome challenges in cancer treatment and improve cancer care is through nanotechnology. Nanotechnology, engineered materials that make use of the unique physical …
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€30.87
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Health Sciences Policy: Perspectives on Biomarker and Surrogate Endpoint Evaluation
In 2010 the Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommended a framework for the evaluation of biomarkers in the chronic disease setting. Published in the book Evaluation of Biomarkers and Surrogate Endpoints …
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€33.18
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Standards for Developing Trustworthy Clinical Practice Guidelines: Clinical Practice Guidelines We Can Trust
Advances in medical, biomedical and health services research have reduced the level of uncertainty in clinical practice. Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) complement this progress by establishing s …
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€58.24
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Standards for Systematic Reviews of Comparative Effectiveness Research: Finding What Works in Health Care
Healthcare decision makers in search of reliable information that compares health interventions increasingly turn to systematic reviews for the best summary of the evidence. Systematic reviews identi …
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Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Traumatic Brain Injury: Evaluating the HRSA Traumatic Brain Injury Program
A traumatic brain injury (TBI)a brain injury caused by a sudden jolt, blow, or penetrating head trauma that disrupts the function of the braincan happen to anyone. The effects of a TBI vary from pers …
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€96.10
Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Valuing Health for Regulatory Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
Promoting human health and safety by reducing exposures to risks andharms through regulatory interventions is among the most importantresponsibilities of the government. Such efforts encompass a wide …
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€83.46
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on the Immunization Finance Dissemination Workshops: Setting the Course
In 2000, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) produced a report Calling the Shots: Immunization Finance Policies and Practices (IOM, 2000a) that illustrated the uncertainties and instability of the public …
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Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Medicare Coverage of Routine Thyroid Screening: Medicare Coverage of Routine Screening for Thyroid Dysfunction
When the Medicare program was established in 1965, it was viewed as a form of financial protection for the elderly against catastrophic medical expenses, primarily those related to hospitalization fo …
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€47.50
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on the Immunization Finance Dissemination Workshops: Setting the Course
Immunization is essential to disease prevention efforts in public health, but the nation’s immunization system faces financing challenges that are affecting the delivery of services. A 2000 report fr …
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Board on Health Care Services & Committee on the Consequences of Uninsurance: Shared Destiny
A Shared Destiny is the fourth in a series of six reports on the problems of uninsurancein the United States. This report examines how the quality, quantity, and scopeof community health services can …
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€57.84
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Rapid Advance Demonstration Projects: Health Care Finance and Delivery Systems: Fostering Rapid Advances in Health Care
In response to a request from the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, the Institute of Medicine convened a committee to identify possible demonstration projects that might be im …
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€35.94
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on the Consequences of Uninsurance: Health Insurance is a Family Matter
Health Insurance is a Family Matter is the third of a series of six reports on the problems of uninsurance in the United Sates and addresses the impact on the family of not having health insurance. T …
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Board on Health Care Services & Committee on National Statistics: Dynamics of Disability
The Society Security disability program faces urgent challenges: more people receiving benefits than ever before, the prospect of even more claimants as baby boomers age, changing attitudes culminati …
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Board on Health Care Services & Committee on the Consequences of Uninsurance: Coverage Matters
Roughly 40 million Americans have no health insurance, private or public, and the number has grown steadily over the past 25 years. Who are these children, women, and men, and why do they lack covera …
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Board on Health Care Services & Committee on the National Quality Report on Health Care Delivery: Envisioning the National Health Care Quality Report
How good is the quality of health care in the United States? Is quality improving? Or is it suffering? While the average person on the street can follow the state of the economy with economic indicat …
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€56.32
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice: Toward Health Equity and Patient-Centeredness
To receive the greatest value for health care, it is important to focus on issues of quality and disparity, and the ability of individuals to make appropriate decisions based on basic health knowledg …
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€40.57
Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Future of Emergency Care
In June 2006, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee on the Future of Emergency Care in the U.S. Health System released a series of reports on the state of emergency care. The reports, Emergency M …
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€53.76
Board on Health Care Services & Forum on the Science of Health Care Quality Improvement and Implementation: State of Quality Improvement and Implementation Research
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) workshop "The Conduct of Health Care Quality Improvement and Implementation Research" was held on May 24-25, 2007, in Irvine, CA. The purpose of this worksho …
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€36.96
Board on Health Care Services & Forum on the Science of Health Care Quality Improvement and Implementation: Advancing Quality Improvement Research
The Institute of Medicine’s Forum on the Science of Health Care Quality Improvement and Implementation held a workshop on January 16, 2007, in Washington, DC. The workshop had its roots in an earlier …
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€30.50
Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Medical Innovation in the Changing Healthcare Marketplace
A wave of new health care innovation and growing demand for health care, coupled with uncertain productivity improvements, could severely challenge efforts to control future health care costs. A comm …
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€30.79
Board on Health Care Services & Forum on the Science of Health Care Quality Improvement and Implementation: Creating a Business Case for Quality Improvement Research
Creating a Business Case for Quality Improvement Research focuses on issues related to improving the science supporting health care quality and eliminating communication barriers that prevent advance …
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€30.71
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Pediatric Health and Health Care Quality Measures: Child and Adolescent Health and Health Care Quality
Increasing public investments in health care services for low-income and special needs children and adolescents in the United States have raised questions about whether these efforts improve their he …
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€49.55
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on an Oral Health Initiative: Advancing Oral Health in America
Though it is highly preventable, tooth decay is a common chronic disease both in the United States and worldwide. Evidence shows that decay and other oral diseases may be associated with adverse preg …
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€36.82
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Health Sciences Policy: Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing
Today, scores of companies, primarily in the United States and Europe, are offering whole genome scanning services directly to the public. The proliferation of these companies and the services they o …
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€41.27
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Health Sciences Policy: Perspectives on Biomarker and Surrogate Endpoint Evaluation
In 2010 the Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommended a framework for the evaluation of biomarkers in the chronic disease setting. Published in the book Evaluation of Biomarkers and Surrogate Endpoints …
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€47.37
Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: National Cancer Policy Summit
Many ongoing changes are likely to have an impact on cancer research and care. For example, technological advances are rapidly changing the way cancer research is conducted, and the recently passed h …
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€21.14
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Oral Health Access to Services: Improving Access to Oral Health Care for Vulnerable and Underserved Populations
Access to oral health care is essential to promoting and maintaining overall health and well-being, yet only half of the population visits a dentist each year. Poor and minority children are less lik …
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€3.83
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Geographic Adjustment Factors in Medicare Payment: Geographic Adjustment in Medicare Payment
Medicare is the largest health insurer in the United States, providing coverage for 39 million people aged 65 and older and 8 million people with disabilities, and reaching more than an estimated $50 …
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Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Geographic Adjustment Factors in Medicare Payment: Geographic Adjustment in Medicare Payment
Medicare is the largest health insurer in the United States, providing coverage for 39 million people aged 65 and older and 8 million people with disabilities, and reaching more than an estimated $50 …
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€50.38
Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Implementing a National Cancer Clinical Trials System for the 21st Century
Clinical trials enable scientific discoveries to advance patient care, in addition to informing and guiding subsequent research. The National Cancer Institute’s (NCI’s) Clinical Trials Cooperative Gr …
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Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Implementing a National Cancer Clinical Trials System for the 21st Century
Clinical trials enable scientific discoveries to advance patient care, in addition to informing and guiding subsequent research. The National Cancer Institute’s (NCI’s) Clinical Trials Cooperative Gr …
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Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Patient-Centered Cancer Treatment Planning
Each year approximately 1.5 million people are diagnosed with cancer in the United States, most of whom inevitably face difficult decisions concerning their course of care. Recognizing challenges ass …
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€23.78
Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Patient-Centered Cancer Treatment Planning
Each year approximately 1.5 million people are diagnosed with cancer in the United States, most of whom inevitably face difficult decisions concerning their course of care. Recognizing challenges ass …
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€25.41
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Defining and Revising an Essential Health Benefits Package for Qualified Health Plans: Perspectives on Essential Health Benefits
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (herein known as the Affordable Care Act [ACA]) was signed into law on March 23, 2010. Several provisions of the law went into effect in 2010 (including …
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Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Defining and Revising an Essential Health Benefits Package for Qualified Health Plans: Perspectives on Essential Health Benefits
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (herein known as the Affordable Care Act [ACA]) was signed into law on March 23, 2010. Several provisions of the law went into effect in 2010 (including …
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€46.91
Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: National Cancer Policy Summit
Many ongoing changes are likely to have an impact on cancer research and care. For example, technological advances are rapidly changing the way cancer research is conducted, and the recently passed h …
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€21.82
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Standards for Developing Trustworthy Clinical Practice Guidelines: Clinical Practice Guidelines We Can Trust
Advances in medical, biomedical and health services research have reduced the level of uncertainty in clinical practice. Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) complement this progress by establishing s …
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€61.86
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Standards for Systematic Reviews of Comparative Effectiveness Research: Finding What Works in Health Care
Healthcare decision makers in search of reliable information that compares health interventions increasingly turn to systematic reviews for the best summary of the evidence. Systematic reviews identi …
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€62.89
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Defining and Revising an Essential Health Benefits Package for Qualified Health Plans: Essential Health Benefits
In 2010, an estimated 50 million people were uninsured in the United States. A portion of the uninsured reflects unemployment rates; however, this rate is primarily a reflection of the fact that when …
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Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Defining and Revising an Essential Health Benefits Package for Qualified Health Plans: Essential Health Benefits
In 2010, an estimated 50 million people were uninsured in the United States. A portion of the uninsured reflects unemployment rates; however, this rate is primarily a reflection of the fact that when …
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€56.30
Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Allied Health Workforce and Services
The demand for health care is growing as the nation ages and seeks to provide coverage for the millions of Americans who lack health insurance. At the same time, escalating costs have led to a variet …
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€3.84
Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Allied Health Workforce and Services
The demand for health care is growing as the nation ages and seeks to provide coverage for the millions of Americans who lack health insurance. At the same time, escalating costs have led to a variet …
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€41.16
Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Facilitating Collaborations to Develop Combination Investigational Cancer Therapies
Advances in biomedical research have increased our understanding of the complex nature of disease and the interaction of multiple molecular pathways involved in cancer. Combining investigational prod …
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€3.84
Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Facilitating Collaborations to Develop Combination Investigational Cancer Therapies
Advances in biomedical research have increased our understanding of the complex nature of disease and the interaction of multiple molecular pathways involved in cancer. Combining investigational prod …
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€39.88
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Health Sciences Policy: Breast Cancer and the Environment
Breast cancer remains the most common invasive cancer among women. The primary patients of breast cancer are adult women who are approaching or have reached menopause; 90 percent of new cases in U.S. …
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€3.83
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Patient Safety and Health Information Technology: Health IT and Patient Safety
IOM’s 1999 landmark study To Err is Human estimated that between 44, 000 and 98, 000 lives are lost every year due to medical errors. This call to action has led to a number of efforts to reduce erro …
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€3.84
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Patient Safety and Health Information Technology: Health IT and Patient Safety
IOM’s 1999 landmark study To Err is Human estimated that between 44, 000 and 98, 000 lives are lost every year due to medical errors. This call to action has led to a number of efforts to reduce erro …
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€50.05
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Health Sciences Policy: Evolution of Translational Omics
Technologies collectively called omics enable simultaneous measurement of an enormous number of biomolecules; for example, genomics investigates thousands of DNA sequences, and proteomics examines la …
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€3.83
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Pediatric Health and Health Care Quality Measures: Child and Adolescent Health and Health Care Quality
Increasing public investments in health care services for low-income and special needs children and adolescents in the United States have raised questions about whether these efforts improve their he …
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€51.36
Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Role of Obesity in Cancer Survival and Recurrence
Recent research suggests that obesity and excess weight can play a prominent role in the incidence and progression of various cancers. Obesity results from an energy imbalance – that is, energy intak …
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€3.85
Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Role of Obesity in Cancer Survival and Recurrence
Recent research suggests that obesity and excess weight can play a prominent role in the incidence and progression of various cancers. Obesity results from an energy imbalance – that is, energy intak …
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€40.65
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on the Mental Health Workforce for Geriatric Populations: Mental Health and Substance Use Workforce for Older Adults
At least 5.6 million to 8 millionnearly one in fiveolder adults in America have one or more mental health and substance use conditions, which present unique challenges for their care. With the number …
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€3.79
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Geographic Adjustment Factors in Medicare Payment: Geographic Adjustment in Medicare Payment
Medicare, the world’s single largest health insurance program, covers more than 47 million Americans. Although it is a national program, it adjusts payments to hospitals and health care practitioners …
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€3.79
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Geographic Adjustment Factors in Medicare Payment: Geographic Adjustment in Medicare Payment
Medicare, the world’s single largest health insurance program, covers more than 47 million Americans. Although it is a national program, it adjusts payments to hospitals and health care practitioners …
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€60.14
Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Informatics Needs and Challenges in Cancer Research
As information technology becomes an integral part of health care, it is important to collect and analyze data in a way that makes the information understandable and useful. Informatics toolswhich he …
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€3.84
Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Informatics Needs and Challenges in Cancer Research
As information technology becomes an integral part of health care, it is important to collect and analyze data in a way that makes the information understandable and useful. Informatics toolswhich he …
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€43.65
Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Role of Telehealth in an Evolving Health Care Environment
In 1996, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released its report Telemedicine: A Guide to Assessing Telecommunications for Health Care. In that report, the IOM Committee on Evaluating Clinical Applicatio …
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€3.84
Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Role of Telehealth in an Evolving Health Care Environment
In 1996, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released its report Telemedicine: A Guide to Assessing Telecommunications for Health Care. In that report, the IOM Committee on Evaluating Clinical Applicatio …
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€50.84
Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Reducing Tobacco-Related Cancer Incidence and Mortality
Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death in United States, causing more than 440, 000 deaths annually and resulting in $193 billion in health-related economic losses each year$96 billion …
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€3.84
Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Reducing Tobacco-Related Cancer Incidence and Mortality
Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death in United States, causing more than 440, 000 deaths annually and resulting in $193 billion in health-related economic losses each year$96 billion …
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€42.62
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on National Statistics: Medical Care Economic Risk
The United States has seen major advances in medical care during the past decades, but access to care at an affordable cost is not universal. Many Americans lack health care insurance of any kind, an …
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€3.83
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on National Statistics: Medical Care Economic Risk
The United States has seen major advances in medical care during the past decades, but access to care at an affordable cost is not universal. Many Americans lack health care insurance of any kind, an …
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€60.17
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Health Sciences Policy: Sharing Clinical Research Data
Pharmaceutical companies, academic researchers, and government agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health all possess large quantities of clinical researc …
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€3.82
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Health Sciences Policy: Sharing Clinical Research Data
Pharmaceutical companies, academic researchers, and government agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health all possess large quantities of clinical researc …
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€43.32
Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Delivering Affordable Cancer Care in the 21st Century
Rising health care costs are a central fiscal challenge confronting the United States. National spending on health care currently accounts for 18 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), but is antic …
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€3.85
Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Delivering Affordable Cancer Care in the 21st Century
Rising health care costs are a central fiscal challenge confronting the United States. National spending on health care currently accounts for 18 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), but is antic …
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€39.94
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on an Oral Health Initiative: Advancing Oral Health in America
Though it is highly preventable, tooth decay is a common chronic disease both in the United States and worldwide. Evidence shows that decay and other oral diseases may be associated with adverse preg …
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€64.34
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Geographic Variation in Health Care Spending and Promotion of High-Value Care: Interim Report of the Committee on Geographic Variation in Health Care Spending and Promotion of High-Value Care
Interim Report of the Committee on Geographic Variation in Health Care Spending and Promotion of High-Value Health Care: Preliminary Committee Observations is designed to provide the committee’s prel …
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€3.85
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Geographic Variation in Health Care Spending and Promotion of High-Value Care: Interim Report of the Committee on Geographic Variation in Health Care Spending and Promotion of High-Value Care
Interim Report of the Committee on Geographic Variation in Health Care Spending and Promotion of High-Value Health Care: Preliminary Committee Observations is designed to provide the committee’s prel …
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€37.27
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Improving the Quality of Cancer Care: Addressing the Challenges of an Aging Population: Delivering High-Quality Cancer Care
In the United States, approximately 14 million people have had cancer and more than 1.6 million new cases are diagnosed each year. However, more than a decade after the Institute of Medicine (IOM) fi …
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€3.85
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Improving the Quality of Cancer Care: Addressing the Challenges of an Aging Population: Delivering High-Quality Cancer Care
In the United States, approximately 14 million people have had cancer and more than 1.6 million new cases are diagnosed each year. However, more than a decade after the Institute of Medicine (IOM) fi …
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€70.89
An American Society of Clinical Oncology and Institute of Medicine Workshop & Board on Health Care Services: Implementing a National Cancer Clinical Trials System for the 21st Century
The National Clinical Trials Network (NCTN) supported by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) has played an integral role in cancer research and in establishing the standard of care for cancer patient …
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€3.84
An American Society of Clinical Oncology and Institute of Medicine Workshop & Board on Health Care Services: Implementing a National Cancer Clinical Trials System for the 21st Century
The National Clinical Trials Network (NCTN) supported by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) has played an integral role in cancer research and in establishing the standard of care for cancer patient …
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€39.79
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Geographic Variation in Health Care Spending and Promotion of High-Value Care: Variation in Health Care Spending
Health care in the United States is more expensive than in other developed countries, costing $2.7 trillion in 2011, or 17.9 percent of the national gross domestic product. Increasing costs strain bu …
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€3.83
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Geographic Variation in Health Care Spending and Promotion of High-Value Care: Variation in Health Care Spending
Health care in the United States is more expensive than in other developed countries, costing $2.7 trillion in 2011, or 17.9 percent of the national gross domestic product. Increasing costs strain bu …
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€57.42
Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Identifying and Addressing the Needs of Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer
Identifying and Addressing the Needs of Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer is the summary of a workshop convened by the Institute of Medicine’s National Cancer Policy Forum in July 2013 to faci …
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€3.84
Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Identifying and Addressing the Needs of Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer
Identifying and Addressing the Needs of Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer is the summary of a workshop convened by the Institute of Medicine’s National Cancer Policy Forum in July 2013 to faci …
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€43.53
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on the Governance and Financing of Graduate Medical Education: Graduate Medical Education That Meets the Nation’s Health Needs
Today’s physician education system produces trained doctors with strong scientific underpinnings in biological and physical sciences as well as supervised practical experience in delivering care. Sig …
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€3.83
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on the Governance and Financing of Graduate Medical Education: Graduate Medical Education That Meets the Nation’s Health Needs
Today’s physician education system produces trained doctors with strong scientific underpinnings in biological and physical sciences as well as supervised practical experience in delivering care. Sig …
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€70.42
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Health Sciences Policy: Impacts of the Affordable Care Act on Preparedness Resources and Programs
Many of the elements of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) went into effect in 2014, and with the establishment of many new rules and regulations, there will continue to be significant changes to the Unit …
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€3.84
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Health Sciences Policy: Impacts of the Affordable Care Act on Preparedness Resources and Programs
Many of the elements of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) went into effect in 2014, and with the establishment of many new rules and regulations, there will continue to be significant changes to the Unit …
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€52.48
Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Nanotechnology and Oncology
One way scientists are working to overcome challenges in cancer treatment and improve cancer care is through nanotechnology. Nanotechnology, engineered materials that make use of the unique physical …
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€31.98
Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Contemporary Issues for Protecting Patients in Cancer Research
In the nearly 40 years since implementation of federal regulations governing the protection of human participants in research, the number of clinical studies has grown exponentially. These studies ha …
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€3.84
Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Contemporary Issues for Protecting Patients in Cancer Research
In the nearly 40 years since implementation of federal regulations governing the protection of human participants in research, the number of clinical studies has grown exponentially. These studies ha …
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€38.38
Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Ensuring Patient Access to Affordable Cancer Drugs
In recent years, patients’ out-of-pocket costs for cancer care have been rising rapidly. These costs include health insurance deductibles, coinsurance, and copayments for covered services, as well as …
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€3.84
Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Ensuring Patient Access to Affordable Cancer Drugs
In recent years, patients’ out-of-pocket costs for cancer care have been rising rapidly. These costs include health insurance deductibles, coinsurance, and copayments for covered services, as well as …
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€38.59
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Population: Measuring the Risks and Causes of Premature Death
Measuring the Risks and Causes of Premature Death is the summary of two workshops conducted by The Committee on Population of the National Research Council at the National Academies to address the da …
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€3.84
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Population: Measuring the Risks and Causes of Premature Death
Measuring the Risks and Causes of Premature Death is the summary of two workshops conducted by The Committee on Population of the National Research Council at the National Academies to address the da …
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€41.07
Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Policy Issues in the Development and Adoption of Biomarkers for Molecularly Targeted Cancer Therapies
A long-held goal in oncology has been to develop therapies that target the specific abnormalities in each patient’s cancer rather than simply treating cancers based on the tissue of origin. In the pa …
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€3.84
Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Policy Issues in the Development and Adoption of Biomarkers for Molecularly Targeted Cancer Therapies
A long-held goal in oncology has been to develop therapies that target the specific abnormalities in each patient’s cancer rather than simply treating cancers based on the tissue of origin. In the pa …
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€41.15
Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Comprehensive Cancer Care for Children and Their Families
Childhood cancer is an area of oncology that has seen both remarkable progress as well as substantial continuing challenges. While survival rates for some pediatric cancers present a story of success …
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€3.84
Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Comprehensive Cancer Care for Children and Their Families
Childhood cancer is an area of oncology that has seen both remarkable progress as well as substantial continuing challenges. While survival rates for some pediatric cancers present a story of success …
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€45.10
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Diagnostic Error in Health Care: Improving Diagnosis in Health Care
Getting the right diagnosis is a key aspect of health care – it provides an explanation of a patient’s health problem and informs subsequent health care decisions. The diagnostic process is a complex …
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€3.84
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Diagnostic Error in Health Care: Improving Diagnosis in Health Care
Getting the right diagnosis is a key aspect of health care – it provides an explanation of a patient’s health problem and informs subsequent health care decisions. The diagnostic process is a complex …
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€70.78
Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Assessing and Improving the Interpretation of Breast Images
Millions of women undergo screening mammography regularly with the hope of detecting breast cancer at an earlier and more curable stage. But the ability of such screening to accurately detect early c …
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€3.83
Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Assessing and Improving the Interpretation of Breast Images
Millions of women undergo screening mammography regularly with the hope of detecting breast cancer at an earlier and more curable stage. But the ability of such screening to accurately detect early c …
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€43.82
Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Role of Clinical Studies for Pets with Naturally Occurring Tumors in Translational Cancer Research
Traditional preclinical mouse models of cancer have been very useful for studying the biology of cancer, however they often lack key characteristics of human cancers. As a result, many novel drug can …
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€3.86
Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Role of Clinical Studies for Pets with Naturally Occurring Tumors in Translational Cancer Research
Traditional preclinical mouse models of cancer have been very useful for studying the biology of cancer, however they often lack key characteristics of human cancers. As a result, many novel drug can …
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€43.53
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on the State of the Science in Ovarian Cancer Research: Ovarian Cancers
In an era of promising advances in cancer research, there are considerable and even alarming gaps in the fundamental knowledge and understanding of ovarian cancer. Researchers now know that ovarian c …
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€3.85
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on the State of the Science in Ovarian Cancer Research: Ovarian Cancers
In an era of promising advances in cancer research, there are considerable and even alarming gaps in the fundamental knowledge and understanding of ovarian cancer. Researchers now know that ovarian c …
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€76.08
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice: Accounting for Social Risk Factors in Medicare Payment
Recent health care payment reforms aim to improve the alignment of Medicare payment strategies with goals to improve the quality of care provided, patient experiences with health care, and health out …
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€3.83
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice: Accounting for Social Risk Factors in Medicare Payment
Recent health care payment reforms aim to improve the alignment of Medicare payment strategies with goals to improve the quality of care provided, patient experiences with health care, and health out …
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€45.75
Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Appropriate Use of Advanced Technologies for Radiation Therapy and Surgery in Oncology
In recent years, the field of oncology has witnessed a number of technological advances, including more precise radiation therapy and minimally invasive surgical techniques. Three-dimensional (3D), s …
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€3.80
Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Appropriate Use of Advanced Technologies for Radiation Therapy and Surgery in Oncology
In recent years, the field of oncology has witnessed a number of technological advances, including more precise radiation therapy and minimally invasive surgical techniques. Three-dimensional (3D), s …
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€46.07
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Policy Issues in the Clinical Development and Use of Biomarkers for Molecularly Targeted Therapies: Biomarker Tests for Molecularly Targeted Therapies
Every patient is unique, and the evolving field of precision medicine aims to ensure the delivery of the right treatment to the right patient at the right time. In an era of rapid advances in biomedi …
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€3.84
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Policy Issues in the Clinical Development and Use of Biomarkers for Molecularly Targeted Therapies: Biomarker Tests for Molecularly Targeted Therapies
Every patient is unique, and the evolving field of precision medicine aims to ensure the delivery of the right treatment to the right patient at the right time. In an era of rapid advances in biomedi …
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€64.34
Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Cancer Care in Low-Resource Areas
Though cancer was once considered to be a problem primarily in wealthy nations, low- and middle-income countries now bear a majority share of the global cancer burden, and cancer often surpasses the …
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€3.85
Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Cancer Care in Low-Resource Areas
Though cancer was once considered to be a problem primarily in wealthy nations, low- and middle-income countries now bear a majority share of the global cancer burden, and cancer often surpasses the …
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€52.62
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice: Systems Practices for the Care of Socially At-Risk Populations
The Centers for Medicare Medicaid Services (CMS) have been moving from volume-based, fee-for-service payment to value-based payment (VBP), which aims to improve health care quality, health outcomes, …
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€3.84
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice: Systems Practices for the Care of Socially At-Risk Populations
The Centers for Medicare Medicaid Services (CMS) have been moving from volume-based, fee-for-service payment to value-based payment (VBP), which aims to improve health care quality, health outcomes, …
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€46.21
Board on Health Care Services & Health and Medicine Division: Policy Issues in the Clinical Development and Use of Immunotherapy for Cancer Treatment
Immunotherapy is a form of cancer therapy that harnesses the body’s immune system to destroy cancer cells. In recent years, immunotherapies have been developed for several cancers, including advanced …
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€3.83
Board on Health Care Services & Health and Medicine Division: Policy Issues in the Clinical Development and Use of Immunotherapy for Cancer Treatment
Immunotherapy is a form of cancer therapy that harnesses the body’s immune system to destroy cancer cells. In recent years, immunotherapies have been developed for several cancers, including advanced …
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€52.11
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice: Accounting for Social Risk Factors in Medicare Payment
Recent health care payment reforms aim to improve the alignment of Medicare payment strategies with goals to improve the quality of care provided, patient experiences with health care, and health out …
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€3.85
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice: Accounting for Social Risk Factors in Medicare Payment
Recent health care payment reforms aim to improve the alignment of Medicare payment strategies with goals to improve the quality of care provided, patient experiences with health care, and health out …
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€51.54
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice: Accounting for Social Risk Factors in Medicare Payment
Recent health care payment reforms aim to improve the alignment of Medicare payment strategies with goals to improve the quality of care provided, patient experiences with health care, and health out …
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€3.84
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice: Accounting for Social Risk Factors in Medicare Payment
Recent health care payment reforms aim to improve the alignment of Medicare payment strategies with goals to improve the quality of care provided, patient experiences with health care, and health out …
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€43.63
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Family Caregiving for Older Adults: Families Caring for an Aging America
Family caregiving affects millions of Americans every day, in all walks of life. At least 17.7 million individuals in the United States are caregivers of an older adult with a health or functional li …
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€3.84
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Family Caregiving for Older Adults: Families Caring for an Aging America
Family caregiving affects millions of Americans every day, in all walks of life. At least 17.7 million individuals in the United States are caregivers of an older adult with a health or functional li …
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€77.17
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice: Accounting for Social Risk Factors in Medicare Payment
Recent health care payment reforms aim to improve the alignment of Medicare payment strategies with goals to improve the quality of care provided, patient experiences with health care, and health out …
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€3.82
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice: Accounting for Social Risk Factors in Medicare Payment
Recent health care payment reforms aim to improve the alignment of Medicare payment strategies with goals to improve the quality of care provided, patient experiences with health care, and health out …
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€102.94
Board on Health Care Services & Health and Medicine Division: Implementation of Lung Cancer Screening
The public health burden from lung cancer is substantial: it is the second most commonly diagnosed cancer and the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States. Given the individual and …
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€3.85
Board on Health Care Services & Health and Medicine Division: Implementation of Lung Cancer Screening
The public health burden from lung cancer is substantial: it is the second most commonly diagnosed cancer and the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States. Given the individual and …
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€52.60
Board on Health Care Services & Board on the Health of Select Populations: Evidence Framework for Genetic Testing
Advances in genetics and genomics are transforming medical practice, resulting in a dramatic growth of genetic testing in the health care system. The rapid development of new technologies, however, h …
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€3.85
Board on Health Care Services & Board on the Health of Select Populations: Evidence Framework for Genetic Testing
Advances in genetics and genomics are transforming medical practice, resulting in a dramatic growth of genetic testing in the health care system. The rapid development of new technologies, however, h …
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€49.90
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on the Use of Selected Assistive Products and Technologies in Eliminating or Reducing the Effects of Impairments: Promise of Assistive Technology to Enhance Activity and Work Participation
The U.S. Census Bureau has reported that 56.7 million Americans had some type of disability in 2010, which represents 18.7 percent of the civilian noninstitutionalized population included in the 2010 …
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€3.85
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on the Use of Selected Assistive Products and Technologies in Eliminating or Reducing the Effects of Impairments: Promise of Assistive Technology to Enhance Activity and Work Participation
The U.S. Census Bureau has reported that 56.7 million Americans had some type of disability in 2010, which represents 18.7 percent of the civilian noninstitutionalized population included in the 2010 …
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€128.41
Board on Health Care Services & Health and Medicine Division: Drug Development Paradigm in Oncology
Advances in cancer research have led to an improved understanding of the molecular mechanisms underpinning the development of cancer and how the immune system responds to cancer. This influx of resea …
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€3.85
Board on Health Care Services & Health and Medicine Division: Drug Development Paradigm in Oncology
Advances in cancer research have led to an improved understanding of the molecular mechanisms underpinning the development of cancer and how the immune system responds to cancer. This influx of resea …
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€57.76
Board on Health Care Services & Health and Medicine Division: Cancer Care in Low-Resource Areas
Though cancer was once considered to be a problem primarily in wealthy nations, low- and middle-income countries now bear a majority share of the global cancer burden, and cancer often surpasses the …
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€3.86
Board on Health Care Services & Health and Medicine Division: Cancer Care in Low-Resource Areas
Though cancer was once considered to be a problem primarily in wealthy nations, low- and middle-income countries now bear a majority share of the global cancer burden, and cancer often surpasses the …
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€56.45
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Health Sciences Policy: Integrating the Patient and Caregiver Voice into Serious Illness Care
Millions of peopleinfants, children, adults, and their familiesare currently coping with serious illness in the United States. Efforts are intensifying to improve overall care quality through the del …
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€3.85
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Health Sciences Policy: Integrating the Patient and Caregiver Voice into Serious Illness Care
Millions of peopleinfants, children, adults, and their familiesare currently coping with serious illness in the United States. Efforts are intensifying to improve overall care quality through the del …
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€52.75
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Health Sciences Policy: Models and Strategies to Integrate Palliative Care Principles into Care for People with Serious Illness
Palliative care is the interdisciplinary specialty focused on improving quality of life for people with serious illness and their families. This interdisciplinary care is provided by doctors, nurses, …
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€3.81
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Health Sciences Policy: Models and Strategies to Integrate Palliative Care Principles into Care for People with Serious Illness
Palliative care is the interdisciplinary specialty focused on improving quality of life for people with serious illness and their families. This interdisciplinary care is provided by doctors, nurses, …
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€57.61
Board on Health Care Services & Committee to Evaluate the Department of Veterans Affairs Mental Health Services: Evaluation of the Department of Veterans Affairs Mental Health Services
Approximately 4 million U.S. service members took part in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Shortly after troops started returning from their deployments, some active-duty service members and veteran …
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€3.86
Board on Health Care Services & Committee to Evaluate the Department of Veterans Affairs Mental Health Services: Evaluation of the Department of Veterans Affairs Mental Health Services
Approximately 4 million U.S. service members took part in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Shortly after troops started returning from their deployments, some active-duty service members and veteran …
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€96.00
Board on Health Care Services & Health and Medicine Division: Incorporating Weight Management and Physical Activity Throughout the Cancer Care Continuum
The National Cancer Policy Forum of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a public workshop, Incorporating Weight Management and Physical Activity Throughout the Cancer C …
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Board on Health Care Services & Health and Medicine Division: Incorporating Weight Management and Physical Activity Throughout the Cancer Care Continuum
The National Cancer Policy Forum of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a public workshop, Incorporating Weight Management and Physical Activity Throughout the Cancer C …
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€52.11
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Ensuring Patient Access to Affordable Drug Therapies: Making Medicines Affordable
Thanks to remarkable advances in modern health care attributable to science, engineering, and medicine, it is now possible to cure or manage illnesses that were long deemed untreatable. At the same t …
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Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Ensuring Patient Access to Affordable Drug Therapies: Making Medicines Affordable
Thanks to remarkable advances in modern health care attributable to science, engineering, and medicine, it is now possible to cure or manage illnesses that were long deemed untreatable. At the same t …
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€70.12
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice: Safety and Quality of Abortion Care in the United States
Abortion is a legal medical procedure that has been provided to millions of American women. Since the Institute of Medicine first reviewed the health implications of national legalized abortion in 19 …
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€3.84
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice: Safety and Quality of Abortion Care in the United States
Abortion is a legal medical procedure that has been provided to millions of American women. Since the Institute of Medicine first reviewed the health implications of national legalized abortion in 19 …
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€63.29
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Health Care Utilization and Adults with Disabilities: Health-Care Utilization as a Proxy in Disability Determination
The Social Security Administration (SSA) administers two programs that provide benefits based on disability: the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program and the Supplemental Security Inco …
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€3.85
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Health Care Utilization and Adults with Disabilities: Health-Care Utilization as a Proxy in Disability Determination
The Social Security Administration (SSA) administers two programs that provide benefits based on disability: the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program and the Supplemental Security Inco …
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€57.90
Board on Health Care Services & Health and Medicine Division: Graduate Medical Education Outcomes and Metrics
Graduate medical education (GME) is critical to the career development of individual physicians, to the functioning of many teaching institutions, and to the production of our physician workforce. Ho …
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€3.82
Board on Health Care Services & Health and Medicine Division: Graduate Medical Education Outcomes and Metrics
Graduate medical education (GME) is critical to the career development of individual physicians, to the functioning of many teaching institutions, and to the production of our physician workforce. Ho …
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€52.36
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Improving Health Outcomes for Children with Disabilities: Opportunities for Improving Programs and Services for Children with Disabilities
Although the general public in the United States assumes children to be generally healthy and thriving, a substantial and growing number of children have at least one chronic health condition. Many o …
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€3.83
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Improving Health Outcomes for Children with Disabilities: Opportunities for Improving Programs and Services for Children with Disabilities
Although the general public in the United States assumes children to be generally healthy and thriving, a substantial and growing number of children have at least one chronic health condition. Many o …
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€77.33
Board on Health Care Services & Health and Medicine Division: Long-Term Survivorship Care After Cancer Treatment
The 2006 Institute of Medicine (IOM) consensus study report From Cancer Patient to Cancer Survivor: Lost in Transition made recommendations to improve the quality of care that cancer survivors receiv …
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€3.81
Board on Health Care Services & Health and Medicine Division: Long-Term Survivorship Care After Cancer Treatment
The 2006 Institute of Medicine (IOM) consensus study report From Cancer Patient to Cancer Survivor: Lost in Transition made recommendations to improve the quality of care that cancer survivors receiv …
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€52.62
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Health Sciences Policy: Financing and Payment Strategies to Support High-Quality Care for People with Serious Illness
Millions of people in the United States live with serious illnesses such as cancer, heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, a …
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€3.83
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Health Sciences Policy: Financing and Payment Strategies to Support High-Quality Care for People with Serious Illness
Millions of people in the United States live with serious illnesses such as cancer, heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, a …
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€47.51
Board on Health Care Services & Health and Medicine Division: Establishing Effective Patient Navigation Programs in Oncology
Delivering high-quality cancer care to all patients presents numerous challenges, including difficulties with care coordination and access. Patient navigation is a community-based service delivery in …
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€3.84
Board on Health Care Services & Health and Medicine Division: Establishing Effective Patient Navigation Programs in Oncology
Delivering high-quality cancer care to all patients presents numerous challenges, including difficulties with care coordination and access. Patient navigation is a community-based service delivery in …
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€57.61
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on National Statistics: Improving Health Research on Small Populations
The increasing diversity of population of the United States presents many challenges to conducting health research that is representative and informative. Dispersion and accessibility issues can incr …
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€3.84
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on National Statistics: Improving Health Research on Small Populations
The increasing diversity of population of the United States presents many challenges to conducting health research that is representative and informative. Dispersion and accessibility issues can incr …
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€50.29
Board on Global Health & Board on Health Care Services: Crossing the Global Quality Chasm
In 2015, building on the advances of the Millennium Development Goals, the United Nations adopted Sustainable Development Goals that include an explicit commitment to achieve universal health coverag …
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€3.84
Board on Global Health & Board on Health Care Services: Crossing the Global Quality Chasm
In 2015, building on the advances of the Millennium Development Goals, the United Nations adopted Sustainable Development Goals that include an explicit commitment to achieve universal health coverag …
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€89.60
Board on Health Care Services & Health and Medicine Division: Improving Cancer Diagnosis and Care
Rapid advances in cancer research, the development of new and more sophisticated approaches to diagnostic testing, and the growth in targeted cancer therapies are transforming the landscape of cancer …
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€3.84
Board on Health Care Services & Health and Medicine Division: Improving Cancer Diagnosis and Care
Rapid advances in cancer research, the development of new and more sophisticated approaches to diagnostic testing, and the growth in targeted cancer therapies are transforming the landscape of cancer …
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€57.76
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Health Sciences Policy: Implementing Quality Measures for Accountability in Community-Based Care for People with Serious Illness
Millions of Americans of all ages face the challenge of living with serious illnesses such as advanced cancer, heart, or lung disease. Many people with serious illness are increasingly cared for in c …
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€3.84
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Health Sciences Policy: Implementing Quality Measures for Accountability in Community-Based Care for People with Serious Illness
Millions of Americans of all ages face the challenge of living with serious illnesses such as advanced cancer, heart, or lung disease. Many people with serious illness are increasingly cared for in c …
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€47.59
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on the Review of the Department of Veterans Affairs Examinations for Traumatic Brain Injury: Evaluation of the Disability Determination Process for Traumatic Brain Injury in Veterans
The Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) provides disability compensation to veterans with a service-connected injury, and to receive disability compensation from the Department of Veterans Affairs …
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€3.83
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on the Review of the Department of Veterans Affairs Examinations for Traumatic Brain Injury: Evaluation of the Disability Determination Process for Traumatic Brain Injury in Veterans
The Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) provides disability compensation to veterans with a service-connected injury, and to receive disability compensation from the Department of Veterans Affairs …
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€70.59
Board on Health Care Services & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Improving Care to Prevent Suicide Among People with Serious Mental Illness
Suicide prevention initiatives are part of much broader systems connected to activities such as the diagnosis of mental illness, the recognition of clinical risk, improving access to care, and coordi …
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€3.84
Board on Health Care Services & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Improving Care to Prevent Suicide Among People with Serious Mental Illness
Suicide prevention initiatives are part of much broader systems connected to activities such as the diagnosis of mental illness, the recognition of clinical risk, improving access to care, and coordi …
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€52.84
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Health Sciences Policy: Integrating Health Care and Social Services for People with Serious Illness
A growing body of research indicates that social determinants of health have a significant impact on health care utilization and outcomes. Researchers and policymakers in the United States have spent …
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€3.85
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Health Sciences Policy: Integrating Health Care and Social Services for People with Serious Illness
A growing body of research indicates that social determinants of health have a significant impact on health care utilization and outcomes. Researchers and policymakers in the United States have spent …
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€52.45
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Functional Assessment for Adults with Disabilities: Functional Assessment for Adults with Disabilities
The U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) provides disability benefits through the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) programs. To receive SSDI or …
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€115.82
Board on Health Care Services & Health and Medicine Division: Improving Cancer Diagnosis and Care
A hallmark of high-quality cancer care is the delivery of the right treatment to the right patient at the right time. Precision oncology therapies, which target specific genetic changes in a patient’ …
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€57.46
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Health Sciences Policy: Pain Management for People with Serious Illness in the Context of the Opioid Use Disorder Epidemic
The United States is facing an opioid use disorder epidemic with opioid overdoses killing 47, 000 people in the U.S. in 2017. The past three decades have witnessed a significant increase in the presc …
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€3.86
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Health Sciences Policy: Pain Management for People with Serious Illness in the Context of the Opioid Use Disorder Epidemic
The United States is facing an opioid use disorder epidemic with opioid overdoses killing 47, 000 people in the U.S. in 2017. The past three decades have witnessed a significant increase in the presc …
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€57.99
Board on Health Care Services & Health and Medicine Division: Improving Cancer Diagnosis and Care
A hallmark of high-quality cancer care is the delivery of the right treatment to the right patient at the right time. Precision oncology therapies, which target specific genetic changes in a patient’ …
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€3.82
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on National Statistics: Dynamics of Disability
The Society Security disability program faces urgent challenges: more people receiving benefits than ever before, the prospect of even more claimants as baby boomers age, changing attitudes culminati …
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€49.54
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on the Immunization Finance Dissemination Workshops: Setting the Course
Immunization is essential to disease prevention efforts in public health, but the nation’s immunization system faces financing challenges that are affecting the delivery of services. A 2000 report fr …
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€21.23
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on the National Quality Report on Health Care Delivery: Envisioning the National Health Care Quality Report
How good is the quality of health care in the United States? Is quality improving? Or is it suffering? While the average person on the street can follow the state of the economy with economic indicat …
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€34.75
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on the Consequences of Uninsurance: Shared Destiny
A Shared Destiny is the fourth in a series of six reports on the problems of uninsurancein the United States. This report examines how the quality, quantity, and scopeof community health services can …
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€28.95
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on the Consequences of Uninsurance: Care Without Coverage
Many Americans believe that people who lack health insurance somehow get the care they really need. Care Without Coverage examines the real consequences for adults who lack health insurance. The stud …
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€27.03
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on the Consequences of Uninsurance: Coverage Matters
Roughly 40 million Americans have no health insurance, private or public, and the number has grown steadily over the past 25 years. Who are these children, women, and men, and why do they lack covera …
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€25.04
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on the Consequences of Uninsurance: Hidden Costs, Value Lost
Hidden Cost, Value Lost, the fifth of a series of six books on the consequences of uninsurance in the United States, illustrates some of the economic and social losses to the country of maintaining s …
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€26.89
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on the Health Professions Education Summit: Health Professions Education
The Institute of Medicine study Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001) recommended that an interdisciplinary summit be held to further reform of health professions education in order to enhance quality an …
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€34.33
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on the Evaluation of Vaccine Purchase Financing in the United States: Financing Vaccines in the 21st Century
The national immunization system has achieved high levels of immunization, particularly for children. However, this system faces difficult challenges for the future. Significant disparities remain in …
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€36.68
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Medicare Coverage of Routine Thyroid Screening: Medicare Coverage of Routine Screening for Thyroid Dysfunction
When the Medicare program was established in 1965, it was viewed as a form of financial protection for the elderly against catastrophic medical expenses, primarily those related to hospitalization fo …
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€33.43
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on the Work Environment for Nurses and Patient Safety: Keeping Patients Safe
Building on the revolutionary Institute of Medicine reports To Err is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm, Keeping Patients Safe lays out guidelines for improving patient safety by changing nurses’ …
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€49.44
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on the Immunization Finance Dissemination Workshops: Setting the Course
In 2000, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) produced a report Calling the Shots: Immunization Finance Policies and Practices (IOM, 2000a) that illustrated the uncertainties and instability of the public …
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€21.24
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on the Consequences of Uninsurance: Insuring America’s Health
According to the Census Bureau, in 2003 more than 43 million Americans lackedhealth insurance. Being uninsured is associated with a range of adverse health, social, and economic consequences for indi …
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€28.79
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Data Standards for Patient Safety: Patient Safety
Americans should be able to count on receiving health care that is safe. To achieve this, a new health care delivery system is needed a system that both prevents errors from occurring, and learns fro …
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€49.34
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on the Consequences of Uninsurance: Health Insurance is a Family Matter
Health Insurance is a Family Matter is the third of a series of six reports on the problems of uninsurance in the United Sates and addresses the impact on the family of not having health insurance. T …
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Board on Health Care Services & Committee on the Crossing the Quality Chasm: Next Steps Toward a New Health Care System: 1st Annual Crossing the Quality Chasm Summit
In January 2004, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) hosted the 1st Annual Crossing the Quality Chasm Summit, convening a group of national and community health care leaders to pool their knowledge and r …
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€34.67
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Rapid Advance Demonstration Projects: Health Care Finance and Delivery Systems: Fostering Rapid Advances in Health Care
In response to a request from the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, the Institute of Medicine convened a committee to identify possible demonstration projects that might be im …
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€34.81
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Identifying Priority Areas for Quality Improvement: Priority Areas for National Action
A new release in the Quality Chasm Series, Priority Areas for National Action recommends a set of 20 priority areas that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and other groups in the publi …
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€34.56
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on the Future of Rural Health Care: Quality Through Collaboration
Building on the innovative Institute of Medicine reports To Err Is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm, Quality Through Collaboration: The Future of Rural Health offers a strategy to address the qua …
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€39.53
Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Performance Measurement
Performance Measurement is the first in a new series of an ongoing effort bythe Institute of Medicine (IOM) to improve health care quality. Performance Measurement offers a comprehensive review of av …
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€54.46
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Crossing the Quality Chasm: Adaptation to Mental Health and Addictive Disorders: Improving the Quality of Health Care for Mental and Substance-Use Conditions
Each year, more than 33 million Americans receive health care for mental or substanceuse conditions, or both. Together, mental and substanceuse illnesses are the leading cause of death and disability …
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€59.13
Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Valuing Health for Regulatory Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
Promoting human health and safety by reducing exposures to risks andharms through regulatory interventions is among the most importantresponsibilities of the government. Such efforts encompass a wide …
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€59.14
Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Medicare’s Quality Improvement Organization Program
Medicare’s Quality Improvement Organization Program is the second book inthe new Pathways to Quality Health Care series. Focusing on performanceimprovement, it considers the history, role, and effect …
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€59.14
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Traumatic Brain Injury: Evaluating the HRSA Traumatic Brain Injury Program
A traumatic brain injury (TBI)a brain injury caused by a sudden jolt, blow, or penetrating head trauma that disrupts the function of the braincan happen to anyone. The effects of a TBI vary from pers …
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€68.62
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Identifying and Preventing Medication Errors: Preventing Medication Errors
In 1996 the Institute of Medicine launched the Quality Chasm Series, aseries of reports focused on assessing and improving the nation’s quality ofhealth care. Preventing Medication Errors is the newe …
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€54.24
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on the Future of Emergency Care in the United States Health System: Emergency Care for Children
Children represent a special challenge for emergency care providers, because they have unique medical needs in comparison to adults. For decades, policy makers and providers have recognized the speci …
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€43.67
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on the Future of Emergency Care in the United States Health System: Hospital-Based Emergency Care
Today our emergency care system faces an epidemic of crowded emergency departments, patients boarding in hallways waiting to be admitted, and daily ambulance diversions. Hospital-Based Emergency Care …
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€49.50
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on the Future of Emergency Care in the United States Health System: Emergency Medical Services
Emergency Medical Services (EMS) is a critical component of our nations emergency and trauma care system, providing response and medical transport to millions of sick and injured Americans each year. …
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€39.68
Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Rewarding Provider Performance
The third installment in the Pathways to Quality Health Care series, Rewarding Provider Performance: Aligning Incentives in Medicare, continues to address the timely topic of the quality of health ca …
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€43.70
Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Future of Emergency Care
In June 2006, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee on the Future of Emergency Care in the U.S. Health System released a series of reports on the state of emergency care. The reports, Emergency M …
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€37.89
Board on Health Care Services & Health and Medicine Division: Advancing Progress in the Development of Combination Cancer Therapies with Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors
In recent years, significant progress has been made in the clinical development and use of various types of cancer immunotherapy, all of which rely on the immune system to fight cancer. The majority …
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€62.89
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Developing a Protocol to Evaluate the Concomitant Prescribing of Opioids and Benzodiazepine Medications and Veteran Deaths and Suicides: Approach to Evaluate the Effects of Concomitant Prescribing of Opioids an
Opioid prescriptions for acute and chronic pain increased dramatically from the late 1990s into the current decade in both the civilian and the Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Defens …
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€52.63
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Health Sciences Policy: Improving Access to and Equity of Care for People with Serious Illness
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that approximately 40 million people in the United States suffer from a serious illness that limits their daily activities. These illnesses in …
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€52.52
Board on Health Care Services & Health and Medicine Division: Developing and Sustaining an Effective and Resilient Oncology Careforce
The oncology careforce faces challenges as population growth in the U.S. contributes to increases in the number of patients diagnosed with cancer. Significant advances in cancer research, screening a …
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€47.59
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Integrating Social Needs Care into the Delivery of Health Care to Improve the Nation’s Health: Integrating Social Care into the Delivery of Health Care
Integrating Social Care into the Delivery of Health Care: Moving Upstream to Improve the Nation’s Health was released in September 2019, before the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a globa …
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€77.02
Board on Health Care Services & Health and Medicine Division: Advancing Progress in the Development and Implementation of Effective, High-Quality Cancer Screening
New technologies and improved understanding of the genesis and progression of various cancers have added to the enthusiasm for potential new strategies to improve screening and early detection of can …
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€47.36
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Health Sciences Policy: Meeting the Challenge of Caring for Persons Living with Dementia and Their Care Partners and Caregivers
Millions of people are living with dementia in the United States and globally. To live well with dementia, people need care, services, and supports that reflect their values and preferences, build on …
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€63.04
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Evaluating Hearing Loss for Individuals with Cochlear Implants: Evaluating Hearing Loss for Individuals with Cochlear Implants
The U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) administers programs that provide disability benefits. Once SSA establishes the presence of a severe impairment, it determines whether the impairment mee …
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€52.36
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines for Prescribing Opioids for Acute Pain: Framing Opioid Prescribing Guidelines for Acute Pain
The opioid overdose epidemic combined with the need to reduce the burden of acute pain poses a public health challenge. To address how evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for prescribing opio …
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€70.57
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Health Sciences Policy: Role of NIH in Drug Development Innovation and Its Impact on Patient Access
To explore the role of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in innovative drug development and its impact on patient access, the Board on Health Care Services and the Board on Health Sciences Poli …
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€62.69
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Health Sciences Policy: Enhancing Scientific Reproducibility in Biomedical Research Through Transparent Reporting
Sharing knowledge is what drives scientific progress – each new advance or innovation in biomedical research builds on previous observations. However, for experimental findings to be broadly accepted …
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€59.60
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Identifying Disabling Medical Conditions Likely to Improve with Treatment: Selected Health Conditions and Likelihood of Improvement with Treatment
The Social Security Administration (SSA) administers two programs that provide disability benefits: the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program and the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) …
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€77.01
Board on Health Care Services & Health and Medicine Division: Health Literacy and Communication Strategies in Oncology
Health literacy is a critical skill for engaging in healthy behaviors to reduce disease risk and improve health outcomes across the continuum of cancer care. However, estimates suggest that more than …
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€42.40
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Health Sciences Policy: Key Policy Challenges and Opportunities to Improve Care for People with Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders
Behavioral health and substance use disorders affect approximately 20 percent of the U.S. population. Of those with a substance use disorder, approximately 60 percent also have a mental health disord …
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€57.90
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Health Sciences Policy: Building the Workforce We Need to Care for People with Serious Illness
The United States faces a significantly aging population as well as a growing share of the population that is living longer with multiple chronic conditions. To provide high-quality care to people of …
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€47.20
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics: Applying Big Data to Address the Social Determinants of Health in Oncology
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held the workshop Applying Big Data to Address the Social Determinants of Health in Oncology on October 2829, 2019, in Washington, DC. Th …
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€47.49
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Health Sciences Policy: Reflections on Sharing Clinical Trial Data
On November 18 and 19, 2019, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted a public workshop in Washington, DC, titled Sharing Clinical Trial Data: Challenges and a Way Forward …
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€70.23
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Implications of Discarded Weight-Based Drugs: Medications in Single-Dose Vials
Every year, significant amounts of expensive drugs are discarded. This is due in part to the growing number of prescription drugs that are administered in variable doses (rather than fixed or flat do …
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€62.71
Board on Health Care Services & Health and Medicine Division: Examining the Use of Biomarkers in Establishing the Presence and Severity of Impairments
As part of the overall disability determination process, the Social Security Administration uses a step-by-step approach to understand how severe an individual’s condition is and whether it meets pro …
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€47.17
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Health Sciences Policy: Caring for People with Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders in Primary Care Settings
Behavioral health conditions, which include mental health and substance use disorders, affect approximately 20 percent of Americans. Of those with a substance use disorder, approximately 60 percent a …
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€57.61
Board on Health Care Services & Health and Medicine Division: Exploring the State of the Science of Solid Organ Transplantation and Disability
Transplantation of a solid organ, such as a kidney, heart, or liver, is a lifesaving procedure and is sometimes the only viable treatment for patients experiencing end-stage organ failure as a result …
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€47.55
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Diagnosing and Treating Adult Cancers: Diagnosing and Treating Adult Cancers and Associated Impairments
Cancer is the second leading cause of death among adults in the United States after heart disease. However, improvements in cancer treatment and earlier detection are leading to growing numbers of ca …
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€82.86
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Implementing High-Quality Primary Care: Implementing High-Quality Primary Care
High-quality primary care is the foundation of the health care system. It provides continuous, person-centered, relationship-based care that considers the needs and preferences of individuals, famili …
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€76.80
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Health Sciences Policy: Temporomandibular Disorders
Temporomandibular disorders (TMDs), are a set of more than 30 health disorders associated with both the temporomandibular joints and the muscles and tissues of the jaw. TMDs have a range of causes an …
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€83.60
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Childhood Cancers and Disability: Childhood Cancer and Functional Impacts Across the Care Continuum
Since the late 1960s, the survival rate in children and adolescents diagnosed with cancer has steadily improved, with a corresponding decline in the cancer-specific death rate. Although the improveme …
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€115.76
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Health Sciences Policy: Challenges and Opportunities of Advance Care Planning
Advance Care Planning(ACP)has long been a staple of caring for people with serious illness. Over its history, it has been defined in different ways. Clinicians, researchers, patients, and the public …
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€32.00
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Health Sciences Policy: Space Radiation and Astronaut Health
Astronauts face unique health-related risks during crewed space missions, and longer-duration missions that extend to greater distances in our solar system (including to the Moon and Mars) will likel …
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Board on Health Care Services & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Opportunities and Challenges for Using Digital Health Applications in Oncology
Digital health encompasses a broad array of tools and strategies with the goals of advancing research, increasing health care access and quality, and making care more personalized. It encompasses hea …
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€42.41
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Building Data Capacity for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research: An Agenda for 2021 to 2030: Building Data Capacity for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research
The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), in partnership with other agencies and divisions of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, coordinates a …
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€19.29
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Building Data Capacity for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research: An Agenda for 2021 to 2030: Building Data Capacity for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research
The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), in partnership with other agencies and divisions of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, coordinates a …
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€19.01
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Building Data Capacity for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research: An Agenda for 2021 to 2030: Building Data Capacity for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research
The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), in partnership with other agencies and divisions of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, coordinates a …
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€19.29
Board on Health Care Services & Health and Medicine Division: Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Cancer Prevention and Cancer Care
The National Cancer Policy Forum of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a virtual workshop in March 2021 to examine the existing evidence base on how the Patient Pr …
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€36.77
Board on Health Care Services & Health and Medicine Division: Exploring the State of the Science of Stem Cell Transplantation and Posttransplant Disability
The Board on Health Care Services of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine hosted a virtual workshop, funded by the Social Security Association, to examine disability associate …
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€37.29
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Health Sciences Policy: Integrating Serious Illness Care into Primary Care Delivery
Approximately five percent of Medicare beneficiaries (2.2 million Americans) are living with serious illness, as are many other non-Medicare eligible individuals. This number is expected to grow rapi …
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€39.52
Board on Health Care Services & Health and Medicine Division: Addressing the Adverse Consequences of Cancer Treatment
Cancer treatment can lead to an array of significant short- and long-term physical, psychosocial, and socioeconomic consequences for patients and their families. To examine the opportunities to preve …
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€42.45
Board on Health Care Services & Health and Medicine Division: Innovation in Cancer Care and Cancer Research in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to dramatic adjustments in cancer care delivery and cancer research. To examine these changes, the National Cancer Policy Forum of the National Academies of Sciences, En …
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€36.03
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Health Sciences Policy: Traumatic Brain Injury
Every community is affected by traumatic brain injury (TBI). Causes as diverse as falls, sports injuries, vehicle collisions, domestic violence, and military incidents can result in injuries across a …
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€51.36
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Selected Immune Disorders and Disability: Selected Immune Disorders and Disability
The U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) administers the Social Security Disability Insurance program and the Supplemental Security Income program. As part of their process, immune system disord …
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€37.23
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Health Sciences Policy: Caring for People with Serious Illness
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted existing weaknesses in the United States health care system, while creating a new set of challenges related to caring for people with serious illness. The Nation …
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€24.37
Board on Health Care Services & Health and Medicine Division: Long COVID
‘Long COVID’ refers to the wide range of long-lasting symptoms experienced by some patients after a SARS-Co V-2 infection. The most common symptoms include fatigue, headache, brain fog, shortness of …
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€24.13
Action Collaborative on Countering the U.S. Opioid Epidemic & Board on Health Care Services: Methadone Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder
Methadone is a Food and Drug Administration- (FDA-) approved medication for treating opioid use disorder (OUD), a chronic brain disease that affects more than 2.7 million people in the United States …
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€26.69
Board on Health Care Services & Health and Medicine Division: Use of Telehealth for Disability Evaluations in Medicine and Allied Health
Over the past few years the common use of telehealth technology has been rapidly expanding. While remote models of care have been successfully used in rural communities for decades, the adoption of t …
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€23.12
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Building Data Capacity for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research: An Agenda for 2021 to 2030: Building Data Capacity for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research
The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), in partnership with other agencies and divisions of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, coordinates a …
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€47.60
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on the Quality of Care in Nursing Homes: National Imperative to Improve Nursing Home Quality
Nursing homes play a unique dual role in the long-term care continuum, serving as a place where people receive needed health care and a place they call home. Ineffective responses to the complex chal …
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€70.40
Board on Health Care Services & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Companion Animals as Sentinels for Predicting Environmental Exposure Effects on Aging and Cancer Susceptibility in Humans
To examine the potential role of companion animals as sentinels of relevant, shared environmental exposures that may affect human aging and cancer, the National Cancer Policy Forum held a workshop in …
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€26.95
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Selected Heritable Disorders of Connective Tissue and Disability: Selected Heritable Disorders of Connective Tissue and Disability
Heritable disorders of connective tissue (HDCTs) are a diverse group of inherited genetic disorders and subtypes. Because connective tissue is found throughout the body, the impairments associated wi …
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€37.12
Board on Health Care Services & Forum on Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders: Innovative Data Science Approaches to Identify Individuals, Populations, and Communities at High Risk for Suicide
Emerging real-time data sources, together with innovative data science techniques and methods – including artificial intelligence and machine learning – can help inform upstream suicide prevention ef …
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€23.14
Board on Health Care Services & Health and Medicine Division: Accelerating the Use of Findings from Patient-Centered Outcomes Research in Clinical Practice to Improve Health and Health Care
Patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) studies consider the questions and outcomes that are meaningful to patients to compare the effectiveness of different prevention, diagnostic, and treatment o …
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€25.77
Board on Health Care Services & Health and Medicine Division: Mechanisms for Organizational Behavior Change to Address the Needs of People Living with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias
Patients diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) rely on family members, their community, and the health care system for progressively increasing support over the course of th …
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€21.74
Board on Health Care Services & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Suicide Prevention in Indigenous Communities
Indigenous communities experience higher risks for suicide compared to the general U.S. population, with suicide as the second-leading cause of death among Indigenous children and young adults in Nor …
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€22.94
Board on Health Care Services & Health and Medicine Division: Promoting Health Equity in Cancer Care
Despite advances in the delivery of high-quality cancer care and improvements in patient outcomes in recent years, disparities in cancer incidence, care, and patient outcomes persist. To examine oppo …
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€22.94
Board on Health Care Services & Health and Medicine Division: Family Caregiving for People with Cancer and Other Serious Illnesses
The National Academies Roundtable on Quality Care for People with Serious Illness, National Cancer Policy Forum, and Forum on Aging, Disability and Independence hosted a workshop that examined opport …
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€24.44
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Health Sciences Policy: Realizing the Potential of Genomics across the Continuum of Precision Health Care
The National Academies Roundtable on Genomics and Precision Health, in collaboration with the National Cancer Policy Forum, hosted a public workshop that examined how genomic data are used in health …
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€21.84
Board on Health Care Services & Health and Medicine Division: Achieving Whole Health
Whole health is physical, behavioral, spiritual, and socioeconomic well-being as defined by individuals, families, and communities. Whole health care is an interprofessional, team-based approach anch …
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€43.52
Board on Health Care Services & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Innovation in Electronic Health Records for Oncology Care, Research, and Surveillance
Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are used across a wide variety of activities in cancer care and cancer research, including communication among health care team members and patients, clinical documen …
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€23.10
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Identifying New or Improved Diagnostic or Evaluative Techniques: Advances in the Diagnosis and Evaluation of Disabling Physical Health Conditions
The U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) provides benefits to adults and children who meet the eligibility requirements for a disability as described in Title II and Title XVI of the Social Secu …
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€26.99
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Health Sciences Policy: Potential Contribution of Cancer Genomics Information to Community Investigations of Unusual Patterns of Cancer
Where people live can affect their health because of location-specific exposure to chemicals and toxicants, lifestyle, diet, immune function development, and social and historical determinants of hea …
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€19.32
Board on Health Care Services & Forum on Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders: Improving Access to High-Quality Mental Health Care for Veterans
The mental and behavioral health care needs of Americans, including veterans, have substantially grown over the past few decades. As the nations largest provider of mental health care, the U.S. Depar …
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€22.93
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on the Pediatric Subspecialty Workforce and Its Impact on Child Health and Well-Being: Future Pediatric Subspecialty Physician Workforce
Pediatric subspecialists are critical to ensuring quality care and pursuing research to improve prevention, diagnosis, and treatment for children. However, there are substantial disincentives to purs …
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€42.28
Board on Health Care Services & Health and Medicine Division: Advancing Progress in Cancer Prevention and Risk Reduction
The National Academies National Cancer Policy Forum hosted a Summer 2022 workshop to explore the current state of knowledge regarding risk factors for cancer and best practices for cancer prevention …
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€21.75
Board on Health Care Services & Forum on Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders: Addressing the Rising Mental Health Needs of an Aging Population
Existing systems are not prepared to provide the mental health care services needed by the growing population of older adults. The National Academies Forum on Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder …
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€24.26
Board on Health Care Services & Health and Medicine Division: Supporting and Sustaining the Current and Future Workforce to Care for People with Serious Illness
There are significant challenges facing the workforce needed to provide high-quality care to increasing numbers of people living with serious illness. The National Academies Roundtable on Quality Car …
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€23.09
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice: Unequal Treatment Revisited
A National Academies committee hosted a public workshop series in 2023. Speakers invited by the committee discussed the current state of racial and ethnic health care disparities in the U.S., highlig …
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€16.71
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on the Identification and Prognosis of Low Birth Weight Babies in Disability Determinations: Low Birth Weight Babies and Disability
Approximately 3.6 million live births occur every year in the United States. Between 8 and 9 percent of infants are born with low birth weight (LBW), defined by the medical community as less than 2, …
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€39.30
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on a National Strategy for Cancer Control in the United States: Guiding Cancer Control
Throughout history, perhaps no other disease has generated the level of social, scientific, and political discourse or has had the degree of cultural significance as cancer. A collective in the trues …
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€57.90
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Health Sciences Policy: Drug Research and Development for Adults Across the Older Age Span
There is a void in evidence-based information for making informed decisions on how to optimize care for older adults, particularly those 80 years and over. Because older adults are vastly underrepres …
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€42.36
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Health Sciences Policy: Early Interventions for Psychosis
Studies show that people commonly have psychotic symptoms for over a year before receiving treatment. Reducing this duration is critical, because early treatment is strongly associated with better ou …
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€19.21
Board on Health Care Services & Health and Medicine Division: Long-Term Health Effects of COVID-19
Since the onset of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in early 2020, many individuals infected with the virus that causes COVID-19, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS …
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€54.02
Board on Health Care Services & Health and Medicine Division: Serious Illness Care Research
To explore the current and future state of serious illness care research, the National Academies Roundtable on Quality Care for People with Serious Illness hosted a public workshop in November 2023. …
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€25.66
Board on Global Health & Board on Health Care Services: Developing a Multidisciplinary and Multispecialty Workforce for Patients with Cancer, from Diagnosis to Survivorship
Patients living with and beyond cancer often require care from a wide range of clinicians as they navigate cancer diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship care. To examine opportunities to improve equi …
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€42.36
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice: Ending Unequal Treatment
Racial and ethnic inequities in health and health care impact individual well-being, contribute to millions of premature deaths, and cost the United States hundreds of billions of dollars annually. A …
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€52.53
Board on Health Care Services & Forum on Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders: Essential Health Care Services Related to Anxiety and Mood Disorders in Women
At the request of the Health Resources and Services Administration, the National Academies Forum on Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders hosted a public workshop in April 2024 to explore mental …
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€24.39
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Health Sciences Policy: Strategies and Interventions to Reduce Suicide
The persistent trends in suicide necessitate action among mental health care providers and payers, researchers, and community leaders. Health care settings provide an important opportunity for suicid …
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€21.59
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Health Sciences Policy: Essential Health Care Services Addressing Intimate Partner Violence
A National Academies committee was tasked with identifying essential health care services for women related to intimate partner violence (IPV) during steady state conditions, determining whether the …
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€42.46
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Health Sciences Policy: Addressing Treatment Resistance in the Development of Cancer Immune Modulator Therapeutics
The use of immune modulator therapeutics, a type of immunotherapy enhancing the body immune system response to cancer, was perceived as the beginning of a new era in cancer care. While still importan …
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€22.81
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Human-Systems Integration: Incorporating Integrated Diagnostics into Precision Oncology Care
The convergence of imaging, pathology, and laboratory testing data, augmented with information technology, is referred to as integrated diagnostics. To examine the current state of the science and st …
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€26.76
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on the Response to the &Pay PCPs Act of 2024& Request for Information: Response to the Pay PCPs Act of 2024 Request for Information
A subgroup of the National Academies Standing Committee on Primary Care was appointed to respond to the Request for Information (RFI) on the Pay PCPs Act of 2024, issued by Senators Bill Cassidy and …
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€19.27
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Health Sciences Policy: Optimizing Public-Private Partnerships for Clinical Cancer Research
Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are collaborations among public and private entities (e.g., government agencies, research institutions, nonprofit organizations, and industry organizations) that br …
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€23.19
Board on Health Care Services & Health and Medicine Division: Health Disparities in the Medical Record and Disability Determinations
People with disabilities can be any age, face chronic health conditions or mental illness, be racial or ethnic minorities, experience low income or housing insecurity, have limited English proficienc …
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€47.49
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Strategies to Improve Access to Behavioral Health Care Services through Medicare and Medicaid: Expanding Behavioral Health Care Workforce Participation in Medicare, Medicaid, and Marketplace Plans
About 20 percent of all Americans live with a behavioral health condition, but only half of this population receives treatment – with direct consequences that include poor physical health outcomes, i …
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€42.28
Board on Global Health & Board on Health Care Services: Aging, Functioning, and Rehabilitation
With recent medical, technological, and socioeconomic developments, people are living longer. The rising average age of the world’s population presents an opportunity to develop health policy that pr …
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€24.39
