The healthcare imperative

By LeighAnne Olsen, Pierre L. Yong, Robert Samuel Saunders

Subjects: Cost control, Medical care, united states, Congresses, Health Care Costs, Costs and Cost Analysis, Medical care, Quality of Health Care, Evaluation, Health Policy, Medical policy, Outcome Assessment (Health Care), United states, economic policy, 2009-, Cost of Medical care

Description: Summarizes workshops convened in May, July, September, and December 2009 by the Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Value & Science-Driven Health Care (formerly the Roundtable on Evidence-Based Medicine), to explore the sources and implications of waste and excess cost in health care, as well as strategies and policies necessary to address these issues--