[PDF] The Comparative Guide To Hospital Utilization Review eBook

Author : Committee on Utilization Management by Third Parties
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 37,36 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Medical
ISBN :

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Utilization management brings patient-level and system-level concerns together and represents a new nexus of relations among pagers, practitioners, hospitals, and patients. This report bears both on generic issues of knowledge and values, and on issues specific to current organizations and procedures for influencing patient care decisions. For private and public policymakers. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality/AHRQ
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 40,34 MB
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1587634333

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

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 46,95 MB
Release : 2019-10-17
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ISBN : 9264805907

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This volume, developed by the Observatory together with OECD, provides an overall conceptual framework for understanding and applying strategies aimed at improving quality of care. Crucially, it summarizes available evidence on different quality strategies and provides recommendations for their implementation. This book is intended to help policy-makers to understand concepts of quality and to support them to evaluate single strategies and combinations of strategies.