Webcast video editorials - The $1.6 trillion question: If we're spending so much on healthcare, why so little improvement in quality?

MedGenMed Medscape General Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Clancy, Carolyn ^a  

^a AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR;

ASTHMA; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART DISEASE; INVESTMENT; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PATIENT CARE; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; UNITED STATES; ECONOMICS; HUMAN; STANDARD;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HUMANS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 39049177820     PISSN: 15310132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

References (4)

1. The 2005 National Healthcare Quality report. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. January 9, 2006. Available at: www.qualitytools.ahrq.gov Accessed May 16, 2006.
2. Kaufman M, Stein R. Record share of economy spent on health care. Washington Post. January 10, 2006: A01. Available at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/09/ AR2006010901932.html Accessed May 16, 2006.
3. Moses H III, Dorsey ER, Matheson DHM, Thier SO. Financial anatomy of biomedical research. JAMA. 2005;294:1333-1342. Available at: http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/294/11/1333 Accessed May 16, 2006.
4. Woolf S, Johnson R. The break-even point: when medical advances are less important than improving the fidelity with which they are delivered. Ann Fam Med. 2005;3:545-552. Available at: http://www.annfammed.org/cgi/ content/abstract/3/6/545 Accessed May 16, 2006.