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03628aam a2200337Ii 4500 001 D65BB0DA6B5311E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160826010517 008 150205s2015 dcua b 000 0 eng d 020 $a 0309324939 020 $a 9780309324939 035 $a (OCoLC)907097150 040 $a BTCTA $b eng $e rda $c BTCTA $d NRZ $d YDXCP $d WVU $d OCLCF $d IWA $d SILO 110 2 $a Institute of Medicine (U.S.). $b Committee on Core Metrics for Better Health at Lower Cost, $e author. 245 10 $a Vital signs : $b core metrics for health and health care progress / $c Committee on Core Metrics for Better Health at Lower Cost ; David Blumenthal, Elizabeth Malphrus, and J. Michael McGinnis, editors ; Institute of Medicine at the National Academies. 264 1 $a Washington D.C. : $b National Academies Press, $c [2015] 300 $a xix, 287 pages : $b color illustrations, charts ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographic references. 505 0 $a Introduction and Overview -- Health and Health Care Measurement in America -- Improving the Impact of Measurement -- The Core Measure Set -- Implementation: Putting the Core Measures to Use -- Action Agenda -- Appendix A: Glossary -- Appendix B: Existing Reporting Requirements -- Appendix C: Existing Data Sources -- Appendix D: Existing Infrastructure -- Appendix E: Biosketches of Committee Members and Staff 520 $a "Thousands of measures are in use today to assess health and health care in the United States. Although many of these measures provide useful information, their usefulness in either gauging or guiding performance improvement in health and health care is seriously limited by their sheer number, as well as their lack of consistency, compatibility, reliability, focus, and organization. To achieve better health at lower cost, all stakeholders - including health professionals, payers, policy makers, and members of the public - must be alert to what matters most. What are the core measures that will yield the clearest understanding and focus on better health and well-being for Americans? Vital Signs explores the most important issues - healthier people, better quality care, affordable care, and engaged individuals and communities - and specifies a streamlined set of 15 core measures. These measures, if standardized and applied at national, state, local, and institutional levels across the country, will transform the effectiveness, efficiency, and burden of health measurement and help accelerate focus and progress on our highest health priorities. Vital Signs also describes the leadership and activities necessary to refine, apply, maintain, and revise the measures over time, as well as how they can improve the focus and utility of measures outside the core set. If health care is to become more effective and more efficient, sharper attention is required on the elements most important to health and health care. Vital Signs lays the groundwork for the adoption of core measures that, if systematically applied, will yield better health at a lower cost for all Americans."-- Publisher's description. 650 0 $a Medical care $z United States $x Cost control. 650 0 $a Outcome assessment (Medical care) $z United States. 650 0 $a Public health records $z United States. 650 0 $a Health care reform $z United States. 700 1 $a Blumenthal, David, $d 1948- $e editor. 700 1 $a Malphrus, Elizabeth, $e editor. 700 1 $a McGinnis, J. Michael, $e editor. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826035935.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D65BB0DA6B5311E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search