Promoting the dissemination of decision aids: An odyssey in a dysfunctional health care financing system

Health Affairs

Volumn 23, Issue SUPPL., 2004, Pages

  Billings, John ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE FINANCING; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; REVIEW;

EID: 8844273460     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.var.128     Document Type: Review

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2. See A.M. O'Connor, H.A. Llewellyn-Thomas, and A.B. Flood, "Modifying Unwarranted Variations in Health Care: Shared Decision Making using Patient Decision Aids"; K.R. Sepucha, F.J. Fowler Jr., and A.G. Mulley Jr., "Policy Support for Patient-Centered Care: The Need for Measurable Improvements in Decision Quality"; and J.N. Weinstein et al., "Trends and Geographic Variations in Major Surgery for Degenerative Diseases of the Hip, Knee, and Spine," all in Health Affairs, 7 October 2004, content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/ content/full/hlthaff.var.128/DC1.
3. See A.M. O'Connor, H.A. Llewellyn-Thomas, and A.B. Flood, "Modifying Unwarranted Variations in Health Care: Shared Decision Making using Patient Decision Aids"; K.R. Sepucha, F.J. Fowler Jr., and A.G. Mulley Jr., "Policy Support for Patient-Centered Care: The Need for Measurable Improvements in Decision Quality"; and J.N. Weinstein et al., "Trends and Geographic Variations in Major Surgery for Degenerative Diseases of the Hip, Knee, and Spine," all in Health Affairs, 7 October 2004, content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/ content/full/hlthaff.var.128/DC1.
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14. See Weinstein et al., "Trends and Geographic Variations"; O'Connor et al., "Modifying Unwarranted Variations in Health Care"; and D.W. Kemper and M. Mettler, Information Therapy: Prescribed Information as a Reimbursable Medical Service (Washington: Center for Information Therapy, 2002).
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16. See Weinstein et al., "Trends and Geographic Variations"; O'Connor et al., "Modifying Unwarranted Variations in Health Care"; and D.W. Kemper and M. Mettler, Information Therapy: Prescribed Information as a Reimbursable Medical Service (Washington: Center for Information Therapy, 2002).
17. See Weinstein et al., "Trends and Geographic Variations."