The quality cure : how focusing on health care quality can save your life and lower spending too / / David Cutler

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910818282403321
• Autore: Cutler David M
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 0-520-28200-0; 0-520-95776-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (235 p.)
• Collana: Wildavsky Forum Series ; ; 9; Aaron Wildavsky forum for public policy ; ; 9
• Disciplina: 362.1
• Soggetti: Medical care; Medical care - Quality control; Outcome assessment (Medical care)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1. Cost, Access, and Quality: The Three Horsemen of the Apocalypse -- 2. The Value Proposition -- 3. The Cost Control Debate -- 4. The Quality Cure -- 5. It's What You Know -- 6. Pricing the Priceless -- 7. Take Me to Your Leader -- 8. How Long Will It Take? -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In the United States, the soaring cost of health care has become an economic drag and a political flashpoint. Moreover, although the country's medical spending is higher than that of any other nation, health outcomes are no better than elsewhere, and in some cases are even worse. In The Quality Cure, renowned health care economist and former Obama advisor David Cutler offers an accessible and incisive account of the issues and their causes, as well as a road map for the future of health care reform-one that shows how information technology, realigned payment systems, and value-focused organizations together have the power to resolve this seemingly intractable problem and transform the US health care system into one that is affordable, efficient, and effective.