Background Laboratory testing is the single highest-volume medical activity and drives
clinical decision-making across medicine. However, the overall landscape of inappropriate …

Can we really use economic thinking to understand our health care system? Health
Economics, now in its sixth edition, not only shows how this is done, but also provides the …

Background Health care transitions in the last months of life can be burdensome and
potentially of limited clinical benefit for patients with advanced cognitive and functional …

Health Promotion Programs introduces the theory of health promotion and presents an
overview of current best practices from a wide variety of settings that include schools, health …

Since 2010, more than 900 accountable care organizations (ACOs) have formed payment
contracts with public and private insurers in the United States; however, there has not been …

Many commentators view the conversion of small, independent primary care practices into
patient-centered medical homes as a vital step in creating a better-performing health care …

Seven provider organizations in Massachusetts entered the Blue Cross Blue Shield
Alternative Quality Contract in 2009, followed by four more organizations in 2010. This …

Objective To examine the financial impact health information exchange (HIE) in emergency
departments (EDs). Materials and Methods We studied all ED encounters over a 13-month …

The enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is a signal achievement on
the road to reform, which arguably began with the passage of the American Recovery and …

Over-reliance on decontextualized, standardized implementation of efficacy evidence has
contributed to slow integration of evidence-based interventions into health policy and …