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Vital Signs: Core Metrics for Health and Health Care Progress,Used
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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 wellbeing 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.
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- Q: What is the main focus of 'Vital Signs: Core Metrics for Health and Health Care Progress'? A: The book focuses on identifying and standardizing core measures that can help assess and improve health and health care in the United States.
- Q: Who is the author of this book? A: The author of 'Vital Signs' is the Institute of Medicine.
- Q: How many pages does the book have? A: The book contains a total of 308 pages.
- Q: What is the publication date of 'Vital Signs'? A: The book was published on September 26, 2015.
- Q: What are the key issues explored in 'Vital Signs'? A: The book explores healthier people, better quality care, affordable care, and engaged individuals and communities.
- Q: What type of binding does this book have? A: The book is available in paperback binding.
- Q: What are the benefits of the core measures discussed in 'Vital Signs'? A: The core measures aim to improve effectiveness and efficiency in health care, leading to better health outcomes at a lower cost.
- Q: Is there a specific edition of the book? A: Yes, this book is the illustrated edition.
- Q: Why are core measures important for health care? A: Core measures provide clarity and focus on the most critical aspects of health care, facilitating performance improvement and better health outcomes.
- Q: How can the measures in 'Vital Signs' be applied? A: The measures can be standardized and applied at various levels, including national, state, local, and institutional levels, to enhance health assessment.