Delivering value: Provider efforts to improve the quality and reduce the cost of health care

Annual Review of Medicine

Volumn 65, Issue , 2014, Pages 447-458

  Gordon, Jonathan E ^a   Leiman, Joan M ^b   Deland, Emme Levin ^a   Pardes, Herbert ^a  

^a NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Department of Health Policy and Management Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Care coordination; Care redesign; Palliative care; Patient engagement; Predictive modeling; Shared decision making

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTABLE CARE ORGANIZATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COST CONTROL; DEFENSIVE MEDICINE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALPRACTICE; MEDICAID; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICARE; OUTPATIENT CARE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARDIZATION; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES;

AFTERCARE; AMBULATORY CARE; COST CONTROL; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HUMANS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT READMISSION; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; REIMBURSEMENT MECHANISMS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84901480397     PISSN: 00664219     EISSN: 1545326X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-med-100312-135931     Document Type: Article

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