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Health IT and Patient Safety: Building Safer Systems for Better Care
books.nap.edu — “IOM's 1999 landmark study To Err is Human estimated that between 44,000 and 98,000 lives are lost every year due to medical errors. This call to action has led to a number of efforts to reduce errors and provide safe and effective health care. Information technology (IT) has been identified as a way to enhance the safety and effectiveness of care. In an effort to catalyze its implementation, the U.S. government has invested billions of dollars toward the development and meaningful use of effecti” View full resource at books.nap.edu
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Improving Health Literacy Within a State: Workshop Summary
books.nap.edu — “Health literacy is the degree to which individuals can obtain, process, and understand the basic health information and services they need to make appropriate health decisions. According to Health Literacy: A Prescription to End Confusion (IOM, 2004), nearly half of all American adults--90 million people--have inadequate health literacy to navigate the healthcare system. To address issues raised in that report, the Institute of Medicine convened the Roundtable on Health Literacy, which brings to” View full resource at books.nap.edu
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Medical Devices and the Public's Health: The FDA 510(k) Clearance Process at 35 Years
books.nap.edu — “Medical devices that are deemed to have a moderate risk to patients generally cannot go on the market until they are cleared through the FDA 510(k) process. In recent years, individuals and organizations have expressed concern that the 510(k) process is neither making safe and effective devices available to patients nor promoting innovation in the medical-device industry. Several high-profile mass-media reports and consumer-protection groups have profiled recognized or potential problems with me” View full resource at books.nap.edu
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Finding What Works in Health Care: Standards for Systematic Reviews
books.nap.edu — “Healthcare decision makers in search of reliable information that compares health interventions increasingly turn to systematic reviews for the best summary of the evidence. Systematic reviews identify, select, assess, and synthesize the findings of similar but separate studies, and can” View full resource at books.nap.edu
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Standards for Systematic Reviews http://t.co/el5vQGU #IOM #NAS
Clinical Practice Guidelines We Can Trust
books.nap.edu — “Advances in medical, biomedical and health services research have reduced the level of uncertainty in clinical practice. Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) complement this progress by establishing standards of care backed by strong scientific evidence. CPGs are statements that include recommendations” View full resource at books.nap.edu
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Explaining Divergent Levels of Longevity in High-Income Countries
books.nap.edu — “Over the last 25 years, life expectancy at age 50 in the U.S. has been rising, but at a slower pace than in many other high-income countries, such as Japan and Australia. This difference is particularly notable given that the U.S. spends more on health care than any other nation. Concerned about this divergence, the National Institute on Aging asked the National Research Council to examine evidence on its possible causes. According to Explaining Divergent Levels of Longevity in High-Income Count” View full resource at books.nap.edu
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New Natl Acad of Sci report. US losing ground in longevity vs other countries due to smoking and obesity effects http://bit.ly/enwY5H
Clinical Practice Guidelines We Can Trust
books.nap.edu — “Advances in medical, biomedical and health services research have reduced the level of uncertainty in clinical practice. Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) complement this progress by establishing standards of care backed by strong scientific evidence. CPGs are statements that include recommendations intended to optimize patient care. These statements are informed by a systematic review of evidence and an assessment of the benefits and costs of alternative care options. Clinical Practice Guidel” View full resource at books.nap.edu
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and IOM guidance on clinical guidelines http://bit.ly/h9TSYE
Finding What Works in Health Care: Standards for Systematic Reviews
books.nap.edu — “Healthcare decision makers in search of reliable information comparing health interventions increasingly turn to systematic reviews for the best summary of the evidence. Systematic reviews identify, select, assess, and synthesize the findings of similar but separate studies, and can help clarify what is known and not known about the potential benefits and harms of drugs, devices, and other healthcare services. Systematic reviews can be helpful for clinicians who want to integrate research findin” View full resource at books.nap.edu
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IOM standards on doing/reporting systematic revs of comparative effectivensss http://bit.ly/gNJ4xM
The Healthcare Imperative: Lowering Costs and Improving Outcomes: Workshop Series Summary
books.nap.edu — “The United States has the highest per capita spending on health care of any industrialized nation but continually lags behind other nations in health care outcomes including life expectancy and infant mortality. National health expenditures are projected to exceed $2.5 trillion in 2009. Given healthcare's direct impact on the economy, there is a critical need to control health care spending. According to The Health Imperative: Lowering Costs and Improving Outcomes, the costs of health care have ” View full resource at books.nap.edu
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Uncoordinated care is costly ($240 billion) and leads to poorer outcomes http://bit.ly/gS0COW #healthcare
Dietary Reference Intakes for Calcium and Vitamin D
books.nap.edu — “Calcium and Vitamin D are essential nutrients for the human body. Establishing the levels of these nutrients that are needed by the North American population is based on the understanding of the health outcomes that calcium and vitamin D affect. It is also important to establish how much of each nutrient may be” View full resource at books.nap.edu
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Dietary Reference Intakes for Calcium and Vitamin D
books.nap.edu — “Calcium and Vitamin D are essential nutrients for the human body. Establishing the levels of these nutrients that are needed by the North American population is based on the understanding of the health outcomes that calcium and vitamin D affect. It is also important to establish how much of each nutrient may be” View full resource at books.nap.edu
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New IOM Reference Intakes for Calcium and Vitamin D report available: http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=13050
Infectious Disease Movement in a Borderless World: Workshop Summary
books.nap.edu — “Modern transportation allows people, animals, and plants--and the pathogens they carry--to travel more easily than ever before. The ease and speed of travel, tourism, and international trade connect once-remote areas with one another, eliminating many of the geographic and cultural barriers that once limited the spread of disease. Because of our global interconnectedness through transportation, tourism and trade, infectious diseases emerge more frequently; spread greater distances; pass more eas” View full resource at books.nap.edu
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Local Government Actions to Prevent Childhood Obesity
books.nap.edu — “The prevalence of childhood obesity is so high in the United States that it may reduce the life expectancy of today's generation of children. While parents and other adult caregivers play a fundamental role in teaching children about healthy behaviors, even the most positive efforts can be undermined by local environments that are poorly suited to supporting healthy behaviors. For example, many communities lack ready sources of healthy food choices, such as supermarkets and grocery stores. Or th” View full resource at books.nap.edu
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Free Full Text: 2009 Institute of Medicine's "Local Government Actions to Prevent Childhood Obesity". http://bit.ly/LjYXz
Resident Duty Hours: Enhancing Sleep, Supervision, and Safety
books.nap.edu — “Medical residents in hospitals are often required to be on duty for long hours. In 2003 the organization overseeing graduate medical education adopted common program requirements to restrict resident workweeks, including limits to an average of 80 hours over 4 weeks and the longest consecutive period of work to 30 hours in order to protect patients and residents from unsafe conditions resulting from excessive fatigue. Resident Duty Hours provides a timely examination of how those requirements we” View full resource at books.nap.edu
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Retooling for an Aging America: Building the Health Care Workforce
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